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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