FORTNIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fortnight mean? 

• FORTNIGHT (noun)
  The noun FORTNIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a period of fourteen consecutive days

  Familiarity information: FORTNIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTNIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of fourteen consecutive days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

fortnight; two weeks

Context example:

most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight

Hypernyms ("fortnight" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Derivation:

fortnightly (occurring every two weeks)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Fairfax said he seldom stayed here longer than a fortnight at a time; and he has now been resident eight weeks.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Oh! as to being Anne's acquaintance," said Mary, "I think he is rather my acquaintance, for I have been seeing him every day this last fortnight."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

We are going to Lord Longtown's, near Hereford, for a fortnight.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Harriet was to go; she was invited for at least a fortnight; she was to be conveyed in Mr. Woodhouse's carriage.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yes, they have been there about a fortnight, Miss Price, have they not?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The next day was fine, and Meg departed in style for a fortnight of novelty and pleasure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They did a job at Sydenham a fortnight ago and were seen and described.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of human experience this lonely woman had strayed into.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for private affairs, came to my house attended only by one servant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Lady Frances had stayed at the Englischer Hof for a fortnight.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)