Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈsɛnaɪt/ · noun
(archaic, poetic or obsolete) Synonym of week in its various senses, a period of seven consecutive days and nights..
I dranke not this sennet A draught to my pay; Elynour, I thé pray, Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]
Marry he trots hard vvith a yong maid, betvveen the contract of her marriage, and the day it is ſolemnizd: if the interim be but a ſennight, Times pace is ſo hard, that it ſeemes the length of ſeuen yeare.
And Mrs. Jevvkes tells me, every one names Thurſday come Sev'nnight for our Nuptials.
Sir Robert Pringle and John Hunter attended the meeting of Heritors intimated here on Sunday gone a se'enight.
We leave Bath, as she has perhaps told you, on Saturday se'nnight.
It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.
I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.
I was not bit enough to stand up to Edward personally, so I had to console the sufferer by allowing him to grease the wheels of the donkey-cart—a luscious treat that had been specially reserved for me, a sennight past, by the gardener's boy, for putting in a good word on his behalf with the new kitchen-maid.
Use sennight when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sennight means (archaic, poetic or obsolete) Synonym of week in its various senses, a period of seven consecutive days and nights..
Common synonyms include week in its various senses.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I dranke not this sennet A draught to my pay; Elynour, I thé pray, Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.