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Fortnight Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Fortnight has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a period of fourteen consecutive days

"most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight"

2

A period of 2 weeks.

"I haven't seen my sister in a fortnight, and I really miss her."

See Also
fortnights passed halfmonth after microfortnight firkin harvest break fortnightly
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
time period

Origin

Fortnight comes from Old English and originally meant "fourteen nights." The Anglo-Saxons used this term because they counted time in nights rather than days.

Rhyming Words
ght ight ought dight bight tight fight eight night might light pight aught hight aight right wight sight voight blight
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