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Answer for the clue "Holiday, or several weeks at school? ", 9 letters:
half-term

Word definitions for half-term in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a short vacation about halfway through a school term; "he came to visit at half-term"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Half-term is the last week in October. ▪ It rained all through half-term . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A combination of rain, half-term and roadworks. ▪ Also open weekends, half-terms, school holidays in winter. ▪ Look at the ...

Usage examples of half-term.

She was wearing a very expensive pink T-shirt, pinched from Maud at half-term, over which all her friends had written messages in biro, a puffball skirt, laddered tights and black clumpy stompers, and was now eating muesli out of a cup with a teaspoon.