fortnight
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- noun
- /ˈfɔrtˌnaɪt/
- UK
:
dos semanas
- I will visit my grandparents in the countryside for a fortnight this summer.
- once a fortnight
- fortnight later
Now those subsequent drops we've seen in the last fortnight mean the difference isn't quite so stark between that rate and the other three-year fixes.
- Now those subsequent drops we've seen in the last fortnight mean the difference isn't quite so stark between that rate and the other three-year fixes.
- And it's just kind of his Zen take on creativity that fortnight.
Examples
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Expect delivery of your purchase within a fortnight.
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For the British, it caps a remarkable fortnight of naval triumphs.
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Or that I only get to see my kid for two hours every fortnight or... -
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The kings will be here in a fortnight.
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Two boys from our year were expelled a fortnight later for just that crime.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's been a long fortnight since we've had a good drink.
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Because I have to go to Avignon in a fortnight.
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They should arrive within a fortnight.
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Eleanor's waters broke a fortnight early when Buck was at a livestock conference in Houston.
Fiction book (1998) -
Duncan supposedly caught mackerel here a fortnight ago, and Dad's been tying his special flies all week.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
Fourteen days in a row
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fortnight comes from old English parts four and night, so it literally means 'fourteen nights' and that is an easy way to remember it still means two weeks.