ਸ਼ਬਦ "ਪਖਵਾੜਾ" ਦਾ ਡਿਕਸ਼ਨਰੀ ਅਰਥ ਦੋ ਹਫ਼ਤਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਸਮਾਂ ਹੈ। ਇਹ ਪੁਰਾਣੇ ਅੰਗਰੇਜ਼ੀ ਸ਼ਬਦ "feowertyne niht" ਤੋਂ ਲਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ, ਜਿਸਦਾ ਸ਼ਾਬਦਿਕ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ "ਚੌਦਾਂ ਰਾਤਾਂ।" ਦੁਨੀਆ ਦੇ ਕੁਝ ਹਿੱਸਿਆਂ ਵਿੱਚ, ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਿ ਯੂਨਾਈਟਿਡ ਕਿੰਗਡਮ ਅਤੇ ਆਸਟ੍ਰੇਲੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ, ਇਹ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਅਜੇ ਵੀ ਆਮ ਤੌਰ 'ਤੇ ਦੋ ਹਫ਼ਤਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਮਿਆਦ ਲਈ ਵਰਤਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ।

Sentence Examples

1. This much talking required more energy than anything he had done in the last fortnight.

2. Within a fortnight, the warmest of summer days had ended in Alfheim and the late summer harvests had rolled in.

3. I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new I confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to come into the market-place for a fortnight they told me I did bravely.

4. Weston gave her the history of the engagements at Enscombe, which allowed his son to answer for having an entire fortnight at his command, as well as the route and the method of his journey and she listened, and smiled, and congratulated.

5. They ought to have balls there at least every fortnight through the winter.

6. It had been a very happy fortnight, and forlorn must be the sinking from it into the common course of Hartfield days.

7. My behaviour, during the very happy fortnight which I spent with you, did not, I hope, lay me open to reprehension, excepting on one point.

8. The stark realization of how immense the odds were stacked against the child me made the idea of even living another fortnight incomprehensible.

9. Towards night I got with some difficulty into my house, where I lay on the ground, and continued so to do about a fortnight during which time the emperor gave orders to have a bed prepared for me.

10. Yet I was so weak and bruised in the sides with the squeezes given me by this odious animal, that I was forced to keep my bed a fortnight.