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Semester   /səmˈɛstər/   Listen
Semester

noun
1.
One of two divisions of an academic year.
2.
Half a year; a period of 6 months.



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"Semester" Quotes from Famous Books



... then came the great annual ball which the students give at the opening of the second semester. Ralph was a man of importance that evening; first, because he belonged to a great family; secondly, because he was the handsomest man of his year. He wore a large golden star on his breast (for his fellow-students had made him ...
— A Good-For-Nothing - 1876 • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... is to hide," said James. "Luckily, most of the business is conducted out of this place by mail. Write letters to some boarding school situated a good many miles from here. Ask the usual routine questions about entering a seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy for one semester. Robert Holmes, our postmaster-taxicab driver-station-master, reads everything that isn't sealed. He will read the addresses, and he will see replies and read ...
— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith


Words linked to "Semester" :   semestral, period, semestrial, academic year, time period, school year, academic term, school term, academic session, session, period of time


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