Usually means: Period of seven consecutive days.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sennight:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. se'nnight, sennight: Merriam-Webster
  2. sennight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sennight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. se'nnight, sennight: Collins English Dictionary
  5. se'nnight, sennight: Wordnik
  6. se'nnight, sennight: Wiktionary
  7. sennight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sennight: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. se'nnight, sennight: Dictionary.com
  10. Sennight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Sennight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sennight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Sennight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sennight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. sennight: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sennight: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Sennight: World Wide Words
  18. Sennight: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sennight: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sennight: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sennight, sennight: A Word A Day
  2. sennight: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sennight)

noun:  (archaic, poetic or obsolete)
noun:  A period of seven consecutive days and nights; a week.
noun:  (attributively) Preceded by a specified day such as Sunday, today, or yesterday: a week from (either before or after) the specified day.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  Preceded by a specified day and come: a week after the specified day.
noun:  Preceded by a specified day and gone or was: a week before the specified day.

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