fortnight

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"And in a fortnight--a fortnight is a long time, Miss Bowen The smile, flitting to Agatha, took a cheerfulness which hitherto in the sad subject of her talk Miss Valery had not displayed.

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  1. noun A period of 14 days; two weeks.

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  • No it won't, for those letters that go under a fortnight are answers to one of yours, otherwise you must take the days as they happen, some dry, some wet, some barren, some fruitful, some merry, some insipid; some, etc.—I will write you word exactly the first day I see young gooseberries, and pray observe how much later you are. —  The Journal to Stella
  • I shall, perhaps, stay a fortnight longer; and a fortnight is a long time to a lover absent from his mistress. —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2
  • I believe a fortnight is as long as I was faithful to my late husband. —  Mary Balogh - Dancing with Clara.htm
  • It seems an eternity since the last football match in the Premiership and in this crazy world of games every three or four days I suppose that a fortnight is a long time. —  Arseblog
  • If the extension period is counted, another fortnight is added. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Middle English fourtenight, alteration of fourtene night, fourteen nights : Old English fēowertēne, fourteen; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots + Old English niht, night; see nokwt- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fourtenight, fourten night, from Anglo-Saxon feówerty¯ne niht, i. e., fourteen nights; cf. sennight, for seven night, a week.
 

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