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\FAWRT-nahyt, -nit\
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noun
1. the space of fourteen nights and days; two weeks.
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Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight
later in July, and must be in London again within a month; and as that
left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they
had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they
had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a
more contracted tour…
-- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813
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| Origin |
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Fortnight is a contraction of the Old English fēowertēne niht |
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