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- Dictionarysemester/sɪˈmɛstə/
noun
- 1. a half-year term in a school or university, especially in North America, typically lasting for fifteen to eighteen weeks: "the opening week of Harvard's autumn semester"
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semester. noun. se· mes· ter sə-ˈme-stər. 1. : either of the two usually 18-week periods of instruction into which an academic year is often divided. 2. : a period of six months. semestral. sə-ˈme-strəl. adjective. or semestrial. sə-ˈme-strē-əl. Examples of semester in a Sentence.
SEMESTER definition: 1. one of the periods into which a year is divided at a college or university, especially in the US…. Learn more.
Semester definition: (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.. See examples of SEMESTER used in a sentence.
a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks. 2. (in German universities) a session, lasting about six months and including periods of recess. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
A semester is half of a school year. In September of your first year of high school, you could describe yourself as "a first-semester freshman." The noun semester comes up often when you're in high school and college. It's an easy way to divide the school year, into two equal halves, or semesters.
1. (Education) (in some universities) either of two divisions of the academic year, ranging from 15 to 18 weeks. 2. (Education) (in German universities) a session of six months. [C19: via German from Latin sēmestris half-yearly, from sex six + mensis a month] seˈmestral adj.
Semester definition: One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year.
Definition of semester noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
semester meaning, definition, what is semester: one of the two periods of time that a ye...: Learn more.
se•mes•ter (si mes′ tər), n. Education (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks. Education (in German universities) a session, lasting about six months and including periods of recess.
