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 — 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 - 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”
A. Word. A. Day--sennight - wordsmith. org sennight (SEN-yt) noun: A week [From Middle English, from Old English seofon nihta, from seofon (seven) + nihta, plural of niht (night) ] Fortnight is a cousin of today's word Twice as long as a sennight, it's a compressed form of "fourteen night" "CHORUS: For now sad Charles unto the throne is come First his drunk grandam fell down in a