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ACADEMIC SESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does academic session mean? 

ACADEMIC SESSION (noun)
  The noun ACADEMIC SESSION has 1 sense:

1. the time during which a school holds classesplay

  Familiarity information: ACADEMIC SESSION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ACADEMIC SESSION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The time during which a school holds classes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

academic session; academic term; school term; session

Context example:

they had to shorten the school term

Hypernyms ("academic session" is a kind of...):

term (a limited period of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "academic session"):

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 session" is a part of...):

academic year; school year (the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying)


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