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School term   /skul tərm/   Listen
School term

noun
1.
The time during which a school holds classes.  Synonyms: academic session, academic term, session.






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"School term" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the school term had closed that day. The next morning, with a heart beating almost to suffocation, the young person found herself on the way to the theater, with self-possessed Blanche, who led the way to the old Academy of Music. Entering the ...
— Ten American Girls From History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... in your own community—length of school term, attendance, whether private or public, qualifications ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn

... nine years longer. Meanwhile various things happened. I managed to finish my preparatory school term and, then, instead of entering college as Mother and I had planned, I went into business—save the mark—taking the exalted position of entry clerk in a wholesale drygoods house in Boston. As entry clerk I did not shine, but I continued to keep the place until the firm failed—whether or not ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... didn't settle it, as finding the note would have. He remembered—or believed he remembered—having gotten that item of knowledge—or delusion—in 1970, shortly before the end of the school term. It hadn't been until after the fall opening of school that he had begun making notes. He could have had the knowledge of the robot rocket in his mind then, and ...
— The Edge of the Knife • Henry Beam Piper

... he took part in all the school sports in the long recess periods, for his school lasted all day. Learning at the end of one school term that the pupils had planned as part of the simple commencement exercises to duck him in Indian Creek, he exposed their plot, playfully defied them, left the schoolroom with a bound through an open window and led them on a chase through the mountains. He circled in his course so he could ...
— Sergeant York And His People • Sam Cowan



Words linked to "School term" :   summer school, semester, trimester, academic year, school year, quarter, term



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