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Definition of "sennight" [sen•night]

  • Archaic A week. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sennight" in a sentence
  • "'_a Month_,' and perhaps 'sennight' is better than 'week.'"
  • "Even more fortunately, he and Idalia had been in Sentarshadeen less than a sennight, and his bedroll (and other camping equipment) were still tucked away in the corners of his room, along with his share of the traveling packs."
  • "But as one sennight, then two, passed without sign of him, or Kellen, or Shalkan, her hope for their survival dimmed."