Definition of fortnight Fortnight

/fɔˈɹtnajˌt/ - [fortnayt] - fort•night

We found 6 definitions of fortnight from 5 different sources.

What does fortnight mean?

Noun Plural: fortnights
fortnight - a period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight"
		two weeks
		period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

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fortnight
fort′nīt, n. two weeks or fourteen days.—adj. and adv. Fort′nightly, once a fortnight. [Contr. of A.S. féowertýne niht, fourteen nights.]