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ACADEMIC TERM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time during which a school holds classes
Example:
they had to shorten the school term
Synonyms:
academic session; academic term; school term; session
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("academic term" is a kind of...):
term (a limited period of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academic term"):
summer school (an academic session during the summer; usually for remedial or supplementary study)
semester (one of two divisions of an academic year)
trimester (one of three divisions of an academic year)
quarter (one of four periods into which the school year is divided)
Holonyms ("academic term" is a part of...):
academic year; school year (the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying)
