fortnight Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a period of fourteen consecutive days
    two weeks.
    • most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight

WordNet

Fort"night` noun
Etymology
Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.
Definitions
  1. The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

Webster 1913