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fortnight

noun as in fourteen nights and days; two weeks

Strongest matches

  • half-month
  • two weeks
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Example Sentences

Entries can be wiped from the record after a day, a week, a fortnight, a month, or a year—your choice.

For a fortnight in Glasgow, delegates from nearly 200 countries will argue back and forth over the great energy transition—over the political and practical challenges of shifting the world from fossil fuels to renewables.

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This that you describe must have happened a fortnight after he died.

There were no other visitors save for a man who came for a fortnight with his wife and seven children.

Fireplace ashes are a hazard for at least a day and can remain so for as long as a fortnight, Duran says.

A fortnight ago, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's prime minister, accused Israel of committing "genocide" against the Palestinians.

It appears that even the sedate Fortnight has a soft spot for star-f------.

A primitive savage makes a bow and arrow in a day: it takes him a fortnight to make a bark canoe.

Some of the half-made hay in the meadows looks as though it had been standing out to bleach for the last fortnight.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

I shall be glad to hear from you soon, as I intend to go to Padstow in a few days and shall not return under a fortnight.

During that fortnight of silence the whole of the Turkish Empire has been moving—closing in—on the Dardanelles.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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