It means a consecutive period of 14 days, the word derives from the Old English words 'feowertyne niht' literally meaning 14 nights. This translation preserved an old German custon of counting by nights as opposed to days
1 fortnight = 336 hours 236 hours or 2 weeks
It is 405,554,688,000,000,000 Angstrom per fortnight.
1/26th of a year. A "fortnight" is two weeks..From "fourteen nights", eg. two seven-day weeks.
Fortnight is two weeks (used by Shakespeare) and annum is Latin for year (annual).
45 mph = 120,960 furlongs per fortnight.
Yes, the word 'fortnight' is a noun, a singular, common, abstract noun; a word for a period of time; a word for a thing.
A period of two weeks is also known as a fortnight.
I haven't got any sleep in a fortnight.
"Our vacation lasted a fortnight." *1 fortnight= 14 days
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A fortnight is a common English word, used all the time, which means a period of fourteen days.
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Noun since it is an object or a unit of time equal to 14 nights or 2 weeks.
The word for two weeks is a fortnight.
Nope! It appears to be a misspelling of "Fortnight."