fortnight

Noun

Meaning

The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

two weeks week twenty fifteen sometime nowadays fortnightly Diaz midweek today sixty biweekly solar year sidereal year days

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Antonyms

eternity

Hypernyms

period period of time time period

Related terms

fortnightly sennight

Phrases with the word

every fortnight once a fortnight half a fortnight may's second fortnight june middle fortnight september middle fortnight

Examples

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. Hilaire Belloc

All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums. Terry Pratchett

I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. Nigella Lawson

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. Hilaire Belloc

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. Joseph Chamberlain

The constitution as agreed to till a fortnight before the convention rose was such a one as he could have set his hand and heart to. George Mason

Close letter words and terms

Fortner fortneth Fortney fortnightly fortnite Fortniter