单词 | halfterm holiday |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-term holiday 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. half-term holiday British. General use as a modifier (in sense 2), esp. in half-term break, half-term holiday. Π 1810 Crit. Rev. Mar. 225 The object for instance, in a college, during the short half term residence of its fluctuating members, is to inspire with the sublimity of Æschylus, the sweetness of Euripides..the minds of the pupils. 1876 Western Times (Exeter) 10 June 1/3 Boys can enter at half-term fees on and after Friday, June 16. 1930 Nottingham Evening Post 5 Mar. 1/3 Why the school may have no half term break. 1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear (1963) ii. ii. 132 As though the cricket match were a frost, nobody had come to the half-term holiday. 2022 Ipswich Star (Nexis) 24 Feb. 5 (headline) Free children's meals at seaside restaurant for half-term break. < as lemmas |
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