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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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fortnight
n : a period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis
tournaments last a fortnight" [syn: {two weeks}]
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