fortnight

• fortnith (dialectal, obsolete)

From Middle English fourtenyght, fourtene nyght, from Old English fēowertīene niht (literally “fourteen nights"; the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights), equivalent to fourteen +‎ night. Compare sennight.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːt.naɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹt.naɪt/
• IPA^(key): (obsolete) /ˈfɔɹt.nɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tnaɪt

fortnight (plural fortnights)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated in North America) A period of 2 weeks.

   Near-synonym: halfmonth

   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter I, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

     On being kicked the girl fell desperately in love with Henri, and for a fortnight they lived together and spent a thousand francs of Henri's money.

   • 1969 January 12, Benjamin Welles, “A Hot Potato for Nixon”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The “lame duck” Johnson Administration, in its final fortnight in office, grappled last week with a diplomatic hot potato in the form of the latest Soviet proposal for a “just and lasting” Middle East peace settlement.

• quindene, quindecim

• fortnightly
• microfortnight

• sennight

• “fortnight”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• fortnight on Wikipedia.Wikipedia