'Fortnight' definitions:
Definition of 'fortnight'
From: WordNet
noun
A period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight" [syn: fortnight, two weeks]
Definition of 'Fortnight'
From: GCIDE
- Fortnight \Fort"night`\ (?; in U.S. often ?; 277), n. [Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.] The space of fourteen days; two weeks. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fortnight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- annum,
- bissextile year,
- boxcar,
- boxcars,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- common year,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- dozen,
- duodecimo,
- eighty,
- eleven,
- fifteen,
- fifty,
- fiscal year,
- five and twenty,
- forty,
- four and twenty,
- fourscore,
- fourscore and ten,
- fourteen,
- half a hundred,
- hour,
- L,
- leap year,
- long dozen,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- month,
- moon,
- ninety,
- nonagenarian,
- octogenarian,
- quarter,
- quindecennial,
- quindecim,
- quindecima,
- quindene,
- quinquennium,
- regular year,
- score,
- second,
- semester,
- septuagenarian,
- session,
- seventy,
- sexagenarian,
- sexagenary,
- Sexagesima,
- sexagesimo-quarto,
- sidereal year,
- sixteen,
- sixteenmo,
- sixty,
- sixty-four,
- sixty-fourmo,
- solar year,
- sun,
- teens,
- term,
- thirteen,
- thirty-two,
- thirty-twomo,
- threescore,
- threescore and ten,
- trimester,
- twelve,
- twelvemo,
- twelvemonth,
- twenty,
- twenty-five,
- twenty-four,
- twenty-fourmo,
- two dozen,
- two weeks,
- twoscore,
- week,
- weekday,
- year