sabbatical year
- noun
- /səˈbætɪkəl jɪr/
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año sabático
- And they traveled together, spending sabbatical years in Italy, Germany, and France, where Lovett learned to see painting through the all-seeing eyes of Bernard Berenson.
- spend a sabbatical year
Examples
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All of which makes me nostalgic for my sabbatical year (six months, really; the rest was Key West when I couldn't take the cold anymore) next door to this hotel, in Edgewater House.
Blog text (12) -
Probably not a bad idea to take that sabbatical year in Fiji during 2009.
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In 1955, Bethe went to Cambridge University to spend a sabbatical year there.
Academic text (2005) -
Several years ago, I spent a sabbatical year working in the Laboratory of Reptile Ethology at the University of Tennessee.
Academic text (1993) -
Independent schools might also consider encouraging their teachers to spend a sabbatical year working in schools of choice, and they might explore the possibilities of setting up year-long teacher exchanges.
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My wife and I recently spent a sabbatical year in Hamburg, and when I learned that we would be going, I began looking for things to read: some history certainly, a few novels, studies of postwar and post-Wende society.
Academic text (2002) -
During her sabbatical year, she traveled across Europe to conduct research on ancient cultures.
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After teaching for five years, he took a sabbatical year to explore new educational methods and enhance his skills.
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The professor announced that she would be taking a sabbatical year to write her next book and focus on her family.
Synonyms
443
3.8
Official permission to be absent from work or duty
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3.9
A period when someone is officially allowed to be away from work or school
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6.6
A period away from work for rest, travel, or research
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5.3
A period of paid time away from work to study or travel
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally built from 'sabbatical' (an extended leave for rest, research, or travel) and 'year' (a twelve-month period), so 'sabbatical year' straightforwardly denotes a one-year period of leave. This noun phrase follows a simple and cross-linguistically common compounding pattern, making it immediately understandable to learners who know both constituents.
Etymology
The term sabbatical year comes from the word sabbatical, which goes back to the old idea of the 'sabbath', a time of rest, and from the practice of taking a whole year of rest every seven years. So today a sabbatical year means a year away from work for 'rest', 'research', or 'travel'.