semester
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1.5
- noun
- /səˈmɛstər/
:
semestre
- This semester has been atrocious.
- spring semester
- fall semester
- one semester
And she just kicked off her fall semester at Harvard.
- And she just kicked off her fall semester at Harvard.
- He was just there for a few semesters teaching history.
- You have up until the end of of the semester to do that.
- It's not the unit of the semester long course.
- I left the Academy after three semesters voluntarily.
- Indeed, there's a course this semester that just reads Plato's Republic.
- Like you could spend a semester on this question.
- Do not come back after first semester junior year.
- This is halfway through their first semester in law school.
Examples
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If you learn nothing else this semester, I trust you will learn that.
Fiction book (1990) -
This semester, I am taking five different courses to fulfill my degree requirements.
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So we started the semester, the academic semester, in August.
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I only went to college for about a semester and a half maybe.
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I feel like I learned a lot in that area this semester, so that was good.
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And I continued to push really, really hard all semester through the entire course.
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And so many of you will start off the semester writing that kind of paper.
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We're leaving in ten days, right after the semester is over, and be back in August.
Fiction book (1993) -
This is halfway through their first semester in law school.
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I just can't miss the end of the semester, final grades, and graduation.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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1.0
A period when a school has regular classes
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8.8
A period of study at a school or college, usually about half a year
A period when a school or university holds classes
The period when classes are held at a school or university
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Semester comes from old words sex and mensis, meaning 'six' and 'month'. So a semester was a 'six-month' period, and today it usually means one of the two main parts of the school year.