fortnight
IPA: fˈɔrtnaɪt
noun
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, dated in North America) A period of 2 weeks.
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Examples of "fortnight" in Sentences
- They arranged a free fortnight's holiday.
- I thought you would stay for a fortnight.
- Good luck with the Collaboration of the Fortnight.
- Rugby union is now the collaboration of the fortnight.
- The edits over the fortnight can number in the hundreds.
- It was the fortnight of the moon, known as the shukla period.
- Australian television is the new collaboration of the fortnight.
- The fair goes on for a fortnight in the months of March and April.
- The West Bengal government gives a fortnight of holidays for the Pujas.
- But I've finally turned over the Australian Collaboration of the fortnight.
- A fortnight is not too long for a healthy man to restrain himself with advantage.
- General meeting to be adjourned from fortnight to fortnight* ntil committees are appointed.
- One of the most important names mentioned in the past fortnight is that of Marshall Zhukov.
- The Whites, who sealed the title a fortnight ago, remain on course to break the 100-point barrier.
- Soon, did I say! when not a fortnight is yet expired of the long and tedious month I must linger out here!
- The Lib Dems are a minority administration, so the next fortnight is going to involve a fair amount of negotiation.
- If you think it useful to write to me, within a fortnight from the present date, direct to me at the post-office, Portsmouth.
- Surely the acquaintance of a fortnight is very insufficient to form her judgment of a character on which the happiness of her whole life is to depend.
- "One weekend in a fortnight is what's commonly awarded and it's not a meaningful time," said Adrienne Burgess, director of research at the Fatherhood Institute.
- Alas! thought she, how long, in the careful and rare wear of Etherington and Cleves, all this would have served me; while here, in this daily use, a fortnight is scarce passed, yet all is spoilt and destroyed.
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