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se'night

se'night is the alternative form of sennight.

Meaning of sennight

Noun

sennight (plural sennights)

  1. (archaic, obsolete, poetic) 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, […]c. 1517 (date written; published c. 1545), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth the Booke Called Elynour Rummynge. The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng per Skelton Laureat.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The...
    Synonyms:
    week in its various senses

Forms of se'night

pluralse'nights

Questions about se'night

What is se'night the alternative form of?
Se'night is the alternative form of sennight.

Words near se'night in the dictionary

  1. SDY
  2. se
  3. se defendendo
  4. SE SN
  5. SE SNe
  6. se'night
  7. se'nights
  8. se'nnight
  9. se'nnights
  10. se-baptism
  11. se-baptist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: se'night (page history and authors); sennight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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