单词 | half-term |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-term half-term n. a period approximately half-way through a school or other term, often made the occasion of a holiday; freq. attrib. as in half-term holiday. ΚΠ 1888 Boy's Own Paper Summer No. 16/2 At half-term it was Hoskyn's custom to write letters to all the parents with reports of their sons' progress. 1944 L. A. G. Strong All fall Down 55 It's half term, as even you must have realised. 1950 Hodgkinson & Muir in R. M. Scrimgeour North London Collegiate Sch. 1850–1950 v. 101 Miss Drummond spent a half-term morning in her Sussex cottage trying to see whether, if girls spent the whole day at Canons, they could be supplied with adequate teaching there. < as lemmas |
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