Fortnight
noun
A period of two weeks.
I have a vacation planned in a fortnight
Often appears as...
- in a fortnight
- a fortnight ago
noun
A period of two weeks.
I have a vacation planned in a fortnight
Often appears as...
- in a fortnight
- a fortnight ago
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Pro Tip 1/3British Term
Mainly used in British English and not as common in American English, where 'two weeks' is preferred.
I'll see you in a fortnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Plans
Often used to talk about events that are happening soon, can be upcoming or in the near past.
The festival is a fortnight away.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Span
Specific for indicating that something lasts for 14 continuous days.
She visited her family for a fortnight.
Pro Tip 1/3British Term
Mainly used in British English and not as common in American English, where 'two weeks' is preferred.
I'll see you in a fortnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Plans
Often used to talk about events that are happening soon, can be upcoming or in the near past.
The festival is a fortnight away.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Span
Specific for indicating that something lasts for 14 continuous days.
She visited her family for a fortnight.
Pro Tip 1/3British Term
Mainly used in British English and not as common in American English, where 'two weeks' is preferred.
I'll see you in a fortnight.
Pro Tip 2/3Future Plans
Often used to talk about events that are happening soon, can be upcoming or in the near past.
The festival is a fortnight away.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Span
Specific for indicating that something lasts for 14 continuous days.
She visited her family for a fortnight.
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Stefana Broadbent: How...
to check that her children are safely home. Then there is another couple, there is a Brazilian couple. They've lived in Italy for a number of years. They Skype with their families a few times a week. But once a fortnight, they actually put the computer on their dining table, pull out the webcam and actually have dinner
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Saving a Baby Orangutan,...
orangutan will be safer in a larger cage come on out get out come out get out we've got a twin put the whole cage in that's your finger to come out she's been trapped inside for a fortnight after losing her mother it's the only
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Safari Live - Day 158 PIPE...
Philip there's not a particular time that elephants will necessarily go into must together they do it it's normally fortnightly or every three weeks once they become or get to sexual maturity so
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Stefana Broadbent: How...
to check that her children are safely home. Then there is another couple, there is a Brazilian couple. They've lived in Italy for a number of years. They Skype with their families a few times a week. But once a fortnight, they actually put the computer on their dining table, pull out the webcam and actually have dinner
Video examples
Saving a Baby Orangutan,...
orangutan will be safer in a larger cage come on out get out come out get out we've got a twin put the whole cage in that's your finger to come out she's been trapped inside for a fortnight after losing her mother it's the only
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Safari Live - Day 158 PIPE...
Philip there's not a particular time that elephants will necessarily go into must together they do it it's normally fortnightly or every three weeks once they become or get to sexual maturity so
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Quote examples
Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.
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Katherine Jenkins
Welsh Musician
I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.
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James Lind
Scottish Scientist
It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
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Eamon de Valera
Irish Statesman
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
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John Hume
Irish Politician
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Joseph Chamberlain
British Politician
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
I am enthralled until the last ball Djokovic hits, and the moment it is over and he is on his knees eating grass, I sink into my chair, cannot believe I have spent another fleeting fortnight of the few summers I have left caring about the outcome of contests I will have forgotten in the blink of an eye, and begin to question my sanity.
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Katherine Jenkins
Welsh Musician
I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.
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Tom Stoppard
English Dramatist
When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.
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James Lind
Scottish Scientist
It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges.
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Eamon de Valera
Irish Statesman
Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.
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John Hume
Irish Politician
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Joseph Chamberlain
British Politician
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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