TERM PAPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does term paper mean? 

• TERM PAPER (noun)
  The noun TERM PAPER has 1 sense:

1. a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TERM PAPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("term paper" is a kind of...):

composition; paper; report; theme (an essay (especially one written as an assignment))

 Context examples 

Saturn and Pluto can be very bossy when combined in an alignment as they will be this month, so alternatively, you may be working on a deadline with a term paper or for a book you are writing or editing and due to publish soon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)