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▪ I. semester|sɪˈmɛstə(r)|
[a. G. semester, ad. L. (cursus) sēmēstris (period) of six months, f. sē-, sex six + mēns-is month.]
A period or term of six months, esp. in German and U.S. universities and colleges, the college half-year.
1827Lancet 17 Nov. 251/2 The student..attends it daily during two semesters. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1864) 146 A young Englishman..fresh from Germany, after sundry semesters at Bonn and Tübingen. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. cii. 450 Graduates who..spend a semester or two at a German university. 1895–6Cal. Univ. Nebraska 33 The year is divided upon the semester plan. Each semester has eighteen weeks.
▪ II. semester
obs. form of sempster. |