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seven-night

seven-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 seven-night

pluralseven-nights

Questions about seven-night

What is seven-night the alternative form of?
Seven-night is the alternative form of sennight.

Words near seven-night in the dictionary

  1. seven-league boots
  2. seven-level
  3. seven-level screwdriver
  4. seven-level screwdrivers
  5. seven-levels
  6. seven-night
  7. seven-nights
  8. seven-segment
  9. seven-shooter
  10. seven-shooters
  11. seven-thirties

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seven-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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