semester

(sə-mĕs'tər)
n.
One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year.

[German, from Latin (cursus) sēmēstris, (cursus) sēmēnstris, (course) of six months : sē-, six (from sex) + mēnsis, month.]

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IN BRIEF: n. - Half a year; One of two divisions of an academic year.

Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks. — Neal Maxwell, Source: Commencement, Ricks College, April 2000, by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. Used by permission.

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sign description: The S-hand moves across and down the front of the body.

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• Colleges and Universities - semester: either of two, usu. eighteen-week, divisions of academic year, September to January or February to June

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See words rhyming with "semester."

Dansk (Danish)
n. - semester, halvår

Nederlands (Dutch)
semester

Français (French)
n. - semestre

Deutsch (German)
n. - Semester

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εξάμηνο, εκπαιδευτική περίοδος

Italiano (Italian)
semestre

Português (Portuguese)
n. - semestre (m)

Русский (Russian)
семестр, полугодие

Español (Spanish)
n. - semestre

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - termin

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
半学年, 一学期

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 半學年, 一學期

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 한 학기, 반학년

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 学期

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ألفصل, نصف سنه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מחצית שנת לימודים, סמסטר‬

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