Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈsɛn.aɪt/
    • IPA: /ˈsɛn.ɪt/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (archaic) A period of seven nights; a week.

Adverb

  1. (archaic) After a sennight has passed.
  2. (archaic) A sennight ago.

Exempel

  • ...if the interim be but a se'nnight, Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year.
  • I was snowed up at a friend's house once for a week. Nothing could be pleasanter. I went for only one night, and could not get away till that very day se'nnight.
  • 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.
  • It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.
  • En ce qui concerne son mariage avec Lady Margaret, arrangé bien qu’il fût prévu pour la semaine courante, la chose était si palpablement absurde qu’il n’y pensait guère.

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