- sennight
- [ʹsenaıt] n уст.
неделя
today sennight - а) через неделю; б) неделю тому назад
Новый большой англо-русский словарь. 2001.
sennight
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Sennight — Sen night, n. [Contr. fr. sevennight.] The space of seven nights and days; a week. [Written also {se nnight}.] [Archaic.] Shak. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sennight — [sen′īt, sen′it] n. [ME sennyt < OE seofon nihta: see SEVEN & NIGHT] Archaic a week … English World dictionary
sennight — noun Seven days and nights; a week. As for his marriage with the Lady Margaret, fixed though it was for this day sennight, the thing was so palpably absurd that he scarcely gave it a thought … Wiktionary
sennight — also se nnight noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English seofon nihta seven nights Date: 15th century archaic the space of seven nights and days ; week … New Collegiate Dictionary
sennight — /sen uyt, it/, n. Archaic. a week. Also, se nnight. [bef. 1000; ME sevenyht, seoveniht(e), sennyght, etc., OE seofon nihta. See SEVEN, NIGHT] * * * … Universalium
sennight — see FORTNIGHT … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
sennight — n. week; period of seven nights and days (Archaic) … English contemporary dictionary
sennight — [ sɛnʌɪt] noun archaic a week. Origin OE seofon nihta seven nights … English new terms dictionary
sennight — sen·night … English syllables
sennight — /ˈsɛnaɪt/ (say senuyt) noun Obsolete a week. Also, se nnight. {Middle English sennyght, sevenyght, Old English seofan nihta seven nights. See seven, night. Compare fortnight} …
sennight — n. week … Dictionary of difficult words
