TWO WEEKS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does two weeks mean? 

• TWO WEEKS (noun)
  The noun TWO WEEKS has 1 sense:

1. a period of fourteen consecutive days

  Familiarity information: TWO WEEKS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWO WEEKS (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 ("two weeks" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

He could not hope for a meal at Ruth's, for she was away to San Rafael on a two weeks' visit; and for very shame's sake he could not go to his sister's.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At least 31 cases have been discovered in the last two weeks.

(Experts Link Fatal Mystery Illness in Liberia to Meningitis Bacteria, VOA)

The first two weeks of December could be lively and represent your best period to meet someone new.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Previous research has shown that people who follow the DASH diet may be able to reduce their blood pressure by a few points in just two weeks.

(DASH ranked Best Diet Overall for eighth year in a row by U.S. News and World Report, National Institutes of Health)

She left me Agnes, two weeks old; and the grey hair that you recollect me with, when you first came.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The third was two weeks of progressively increasing levels of electrical stimulation followed by a week of constant intensity stimulation.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

Because indigestion can be a sign of a more serious problem, see your health care provider if it lasts for more than two weeks or if you have severe pain or other symptoms.

(Indigestion, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

I have not drawn string for two weeks, but I may be able to show ye how such shots should be made.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Investigators also obtained nasal and throat swabs from contacts at the start of the study and every few days for approximately two weeks thereafter to track whether they became infected with influenza virus.

(New study reveals a novel indicator of influenza immunity, National Institutes of Health)

Two weeks after infection, some animals received an oral glutamine supplement and others did not.

(Glutamine suppresses herpes in mice and guinea pigs, National Institutes of Health)