Synonyms for fortnight
ˈfɔrtˌnaɪt, -nɪtfort·night

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1. fortnightadverb

   After a fortnight has passed.

   1852 Charles Dickens, Bleak House: We will proceed with the hearing on Wednesday fortnight.

   Synonyms:
   halfmonth

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1. fortnight, two weeksnoun

   a period of fourteen consecutive days

   "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight"

   Synonyms:
   two weeks

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1. two days

   Submitted by anonymous on July 5, 2020  

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1. fortnightnoun

   Synonyms:
   two weeks

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1. Serena Williams:

   I definitely would like to be involved here for the full fortnight to help, I guess, put tennis on the map that much more. But I think Andy's done a pretty tremendous job of doing that.

2. Steve Morris:

   With China, I just threw my laptop over my shoulder and went there for a fortnight, my approach is to make contact with possible dealers, meet them and look at their business plans... I have to ask whether the customer will be sufficiently looked after.

3. Cyril Connolly:

   I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

4. Helen Dixon:

   I expect that file to land on my desk in the next fortnight, i'd like to say that we could do it in 48 hours, but it has to be in the order of months, to be done in the way that it has to be done. I will have to allow them a period of time to respond. I would have to consider their responses.

5. Charlie Watts:

   Every band I’d ever been in had lasted a week, i always thought the Stones would last a week, then a fortnight, and then suddenly, it’s 30 years.