Crossword clues for semester
semester
- Term for odd steamy compound
- Academic period
- School session
- School period
- School-year division
- School time
- Division of an academic year
- Word from the Greek for "six-months long"
- School year section
- Learning period
- Half year in school
- Half of a school year
- Half a school year
- Grading period
- Fall or spring period
- Fall for a senior, e.g
- Duke's fall, e.g
- Course length
- Term for Brown
- Academic term
- Academic stretch
- Duke's fall, e.g.
- Half a year
- A period of 6 months
- One of two divisions of an academic year
- Academic session
- Part of an academic year
- Period at college
- Oberlin time frame
- Part of a college year
- School term
- College term
- Foreign steersmen failing to complete university term
- Year part, in college
- Half-year academic course
- Half-year division of an academic year
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semester \Se*mes"ter\ (s[-e]*m[e^]s"t[~e]r), n. [G., from L. semestris half-yearly; sex six + mensis a month.] A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or university which divides the year into two terms.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Half of a school year (context US English) or academic year such as fall or spring semester. 2 A period or term of six months.
WordNet
n. one of two divisions of an academic year
half a year; a period of 6 months
Usage examples of "semester".
An F in the Age of Socrates would have the same consequence: he would be banned from athletics for a semester.
Before the end of the semester they winnowed them down to two: Was the New Glitterer sent by the gods for reasons unknown or unknowable?
What Heering had said about being between semesters was working to his advantage.
That day he asked Eva Evasdaughter about directed protein mutagenesis, a topic they were not due to study until next semester.
He graduated from Ilium High School in the upper third of his class, and attended night sessions at the Ilium School of Optometry for one semester before being drafted for military service in the Second World War.
Toen hij aan het eind van het semester zijn werkstuk inleverde kon hij goed Frans lezen, hoewel hij geen moeite deed om de taal ook te spreken.
The hallway was bleak, decorated with yellowed grade sheets from the previous semester and the flyers that promised overseas employment or assistantships at unfamiliar colleges.
I ran into each other again in a History of Synergistic Theory class this semester.
Why, when some of the students last semester requested that the administration include courses in things like forestry, basketmaking and plant grafting, they called out the C.
Her hair was done up in orange cornrows -- a new style for her, but then she changed styles just about every other semester.
By intersession she meant that the spring semester was over and the summer sessions had not yet started.
Many of the staff had already left for vacation during intersession, now that new scheduling had freed everyone from doing mini-courses between semesters.
She spent her high school years and the first three semesters at Kingwood Community College in a series of foster homes where she was cared for adequately enough but never felt comfortable and certainly not loved, though she supposed, in retrospect, that it was more her fault than that of her wards.
Athough he got rid of the webpage after receiving complaints from school officials, they went ahead and gave him a 10 day suspension and subsequently failed him for the semester as a result of his absences.
You were the only one," and Clas waggled a finger at her, "who wasn't trying to figure out what technical trick Siffert had up his sleeve this semester.