semester
noun /sɪˈmestə(r)/
/sɪˈmestər/
- (especially in North America) one of the two periods that the school or college year is divided into
- the spring/fall semester
Extra ExamplesTopics Timeb1, Educationb1- I spent a semester at the University of Madrid.
- I was finishing my last semester in college and trying to look for a job.
- The new semester started on February 3.
- The semester break had begun.
- The total curriculum is 54 semester hours.
- students completing all eight semesters of the program
- the end of the first-semester course
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- first
- second
- fall
- …
- spend
- begin
- complete
- …
- begin
- start
- end
- …
- break
- hour
- credit hours
- …
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from German Semester, from Latin semestris ‘six-monthly’, from sex ‘six’ + mensis ‘month’.