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sennight

[sen-ahyt, -it]

sen·night

[sen-ahyt, -it]
noun Archaic.
a week.
Also, se'n·night.


Origin:
before 1000; Middle English sevenyht, seoveniht(e), sennyght, etc., Old English seofon nihta. See seven, night
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Sennight is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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sennight or se'nnight (ˈsɛnaɪt)
 
n
an archaic word for week
 
[Old English seofan nihte; see seven, night]
 
se'nnight or se'nnight
 
n
 
[Old English seofan nihte; see seven, night]

sennight or se'nnight (ˈsɛnaɪt)
 
n
an archaic word for week
 
[Old English seofan nihte; see seven, night]
 
se'nnight or se'nnight
 
n
 
[Old English seofan nihte; see seven, night]

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