'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]

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