fortnight : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fortnight	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for fortnight
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fortnight n a period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight" Synonym(s): fortnight, two weeks
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.