semester
NounUS[suh-mes-ter]/səˈmɛstɚ/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)semesters
- one of two divisions of an academic yearType of school term, academic termPart of school year, academic year
- half a year; a period of 6 monthsType of time period, period of time
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Translations
Noun half of school year
- Spanish
- semestre
- French
- semestre
- German
- Semester
- Italian
- semestre
- Portuguese
- semestre
- Turkish
- yarıyıl
- Russian
- семе́стр seméstr
- Chinese
- 学期 xuéqī
- Japanese
- 学期 gakki
- Dutch
- semester
19 more languages
- Polish
- semestr
- Swedish
- termin
- Greek
- εξάμηνο exámino
- Korean
- 학기 hakgi
- Indonesian
- semester
- Hungarian
- szemeszter
- Portuguese (PT)
- semestre
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 學期 xuéqī
- Catalan
- semestre
- Czech
- semestr
- Danish
- semester
- Finnish
- lukukausi
- Georgian
- სემესტრი semesṭri
- Icelandic
- misseri
- Lithuanian
- semestras
- Norwegian
- semester
- Romanian
- semestru
- Serbo-Croatian
- polugodište
- Yiddish
- סעמעסטער semester
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Se·mes′ter (sē-mĕs′tẽr), noun
Origin: G., from L. semestris half-yearly; sex six + mensis a month.
A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54