English

Alternative forms

• sennight

Noun

se'nnight ‎(plural se'nnights)

1. Contraction of sevennight.
   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, chapter 17, page 27

     We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.

   • 1953, Isaac Asimov, Second Foundation (1971 Panther Books Ltd publication), part I: “Search by the Mule”, chapter 3: ‘Two Men and a Peasant’, page 37, ¶ 10

     “Old woman, what was it the village Elders said a se’nnight since?”