fortnight, two weeks
(noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days; “most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fortnight (plural fortnights)
(chiefly, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A period of 2 weeks.
Source: Wiktionary
Fort"night` (; in U.S. often ; 277), n. Etym: [Contr. fr. fourteen nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, seven nights, sennight, a week.]
Definition: The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
