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Synonyms for semester


Grammar : Noun
Spell : si-mes-ter
Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈmɛs tər



Définition of semester

Origin :
  • 1827, from German Semester "half-year course in a university," from Latin semestris, in cursus semestris "course of six months," from semestris, semenstris "of six months, lasting six months, half-yearly, semi-annual," from sex "six" (see six) + mensis "month" (see moon (n.)). Related: Semestral; semestrial.
  • noun term
Example sentences :
  • But we had so many new girls this semester that I could not get around sooner.
  • Extract from : « Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall » by Jean K. Baird
  • The students of the present semester number fifteen hundred.
  • Extract from : « Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror » by Richard Linthicum
  • There were enough paintings there to last till the end of the semester.
  • Extract from : « Beatrice Leigh at College » by Julia Augusta Schwartz
  • One semester in this subject was usually considered sufficient.
  • Extract from : « My Life » by Josiah Flynt
  • I had other uses for the semester twenty marks, unless he absolutely needed them.
  • Extract from : « My Life » by Josiah Flynt
  • There's plenty of engineers, and more being graduated every semester.
  • Extract from : « Waste Not, Want » by Dave Dryfoos
  • But this may help you, too, in reviewing for your semester finals.
  • Extract from : « Betty Lee, Freshman » by David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
  • It provides experiments for one laboratory period a week for one semester.
  • Extract from : « Clever Hans » by Oskar Pfungst
  • He also took one semester of lectures in the University of Berlin, in 1891.
  • Extract from : « Twentieth Century Negro Literature » by Various
  • Failure is used in the unit sense of non-passing in a semester subject.
  • Extract from : « The High School Failures » by Francis P. Obrien

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