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FORTNIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of fourteen consecutive days
Example:
most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight
Synonyms:
fortnight; two weeks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("fortnight" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Derivation:
fortnightly (occurring every two weeks)
Context examples:
A week afterwards Dr. Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In another fortnight I was able to leave my chamber.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
We were married within a fortnight.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"A fortnight!" she repeated, surprised at his being so long in the same county with Elinor without seeing her before.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Collins returned most punctually on Monday fortnight, but his reception at Longbourn was not quite so gracious as it had been on his first introduction.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Only a week, sir?” he cried, in a despairing voice. “A fortnight—say at least a fortnight!”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I now busied myself in preparations: the fortnight passed rapidly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The mess-room will drink Isabella Thorpe for a fortnight, and she will laugh with your brother over poor Tilney's passion for a month.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Whatever strange things I said or did during that fortnight, you have now a key to.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
His absence had been extended beyond a fortnight purposely to avoid Miss Crawford.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
