Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Happening or appearing once in or every two weeks.
- adverb Once in a fortnight.
- noun A publication issued once every two weeks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Occurring or appearing once a fortnight: as, a fortnightly mail.
- Once a fortnight; every fortnight; at intervals of a fortnight: as, a paper published fortnightly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a publication issued fortnightly; a
bi-weekly - adjective occurring once in a
fortnight - adverb once in a
fortnight
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb every two weeks
- adjective occurring every two weeks
Etymologies
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Examples
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About 2% of my excitement in working for the Guardian has to do with seeing my "z's" replaced with "s's" and being able to use the word "fortnightly" more often and completely appropriately.
The Guardian World News Ana Marie Cox 2011
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You should look to use the word "fortnightly" at least once every two weeks.
The Guardian World News Ana Marie Cox 2011
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She was treated with the atypical anti-psychotic medication — administered in fortnightly injections so it is not left up to a patient to take the medicine every day.
Scientology-related case: Anti-psychotic drug use furore 2008
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She’s always been a bit of a writer as she chronicled our 5 years living and travelling through Europe in fortnightly newsletters, faithfully typed up, photocopied and sent to a variety of friends and family. (this was before the internet and emails) Even back then people used to say she should put all our adventures into a book as it was always so interesting to read.
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Mr Miliband will also take the opportunity to say he believes food waste should be collected separately and weekly, not fortnightly, which is encouraging for those like the Daily Mail who have been making this point for some weeks now.
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In addition to weekly episodes of our human rights broadcast, we were also producing 'fortnightly' (a word we had picked up from Anita and begun to employ widely!) editions of Body Shop Television -- a unique, in-store television magazine devoted to internal communication among Body Shop employees and managers.
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So it smooshes into the following night, which was the SF Society's fortnightly meeting in the same pub, and I can't honestly say who I caught up with on Wednesday and who I caught up with Thursday.
Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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In mid-March, as a White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan was nearing completion, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met in a secure Pentagon room for their fortnightly video conference with Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Kabul.
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THOR: I wash it fortnightly in the sacred waters of the Rhinemaidens, then comb it straight by the light of a silvery moon.
Robert Brenner: A Thor Subject Robert Brenner 2011
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So it smooshes into the following night, which was the SF Society's fortnightly meeting in the same pub, and I can't honestly say who I caught up with on Wednesday and who I caught up with Thursday.
Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009
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