HALF-TERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-term mean? 

• HALF-TERM (noun)
  The noun HALF-TERM has 1 sense:

1. a short vacation about halfway through a school term

  Familiarity information: HALF-TERM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-TERM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short vacation about halfway through a school term

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

he came to visit at half-term

Hypernyms ("half-term" is a kind of...):

holiday; vacation (leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)