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- SENNIGHT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SENNIGHT is the space of seven nights and days : week
- sennight - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Noun sennight (plural sennights) (archaic, poetic or obsolete) Synonym of week in its various senses, a period of seven consecutive days and nights
- Sennight - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline
sennight (n ) "period or space of seven days and nights, a week" (archaic), a contraction by late 14c of late Old English sefennnahht (Orm), itself from Old English seofon nihta literally "seven nights;" see seven + night
- SENNIGHT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
"If I don't leave, you won't sit comfortably for a sennight → an archaic word for week Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video
- sennight, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
sennight, n meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- Sennight — Meaning, Origin Etymology | The Journey
The Old English compound seofon nihta, meaning literally 'seven nights,' contracted over time into the Middle English form sennight, a word for what we now call a week
- Sennight - definition of sennight by The Free Dictionary
sennight (ˈsɛnaɪt) or se'nnight n an archaic word for week [Old English seofan nihte; see seven, night]
- Sennight - World Wide Words
Sennight is an abbreviation of the fuller phrase seven nights, hence a week So Sir Thomas Malory wrote in Le Mort d’Arthur (1485): “They sojourned there a sennight, and were well eased of their wounds, and at the last departed”
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