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View synonyms for fortnightly

fortnightly

[ fawrt-nahyt-lee ]

adjective

  1. occurring or appearing once a fortnight.


adverb

  1. once a fortnight.

noun

, plural fort·night·lies.
  1. a periodical issued every two weeks.

fortnightly

/ ˈfɔːtˌnaɪtlɪ /

adjective

  1. occurring or appearing once each fortnight


adverb

  1. once a fortnight

noun

  1. a publication issued at intervals of two weeks

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fortnightly1

First recorded in 1790–1800; fortnight + -ly

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Example Sentences

M.J. Akbar is Chairman and Director of Publications of the fortnightly newsmagazine Covert.

Its market is but fortnightly, and for thirteen days out of every fourteen the town dozes tranquilly.

He's subscribed for a whole year—for a fortnightly letter from a girl in Killarney who has got to be named 'Katie'.

A Kentucky woman's club, meeting fortnightly all the year round, has for its current subject Rome and Italy.

What admonition could the Doctor add to those which he had addressed to his poor son fortnightly for years past?

At that time the foreign mail went out fortnightly, alternately from Bombay and Calcutta.

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