fortnight

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fort=night

CIDE DICTIONARY

fortnight, n. [Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.].

 The space of fourteen days; two weeks.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fortnight, n.
1 a period of two weeks.
2 (prec. by a specified day) two weeks after (that day) (Tuesday fortnight).

Etymology

OE feowertiene niht fourteen nights

THESAURUS

fortnight

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