sennight

English

Etymology

• Shortened form of sevennight.

Noun

sennight (plural sennights)

1. Seven days and nights; a week.
   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando

     As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day sennight, the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought.

See also

• fortnight

References

• “sennight” in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.