Usually means: Mid-semester break for students.
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  1. half-term: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. half term: Collins English Dictionary
  3. half-term: Vocabulary.com
  4. Half-Term, Half-term, half-term: Wordnik
  5. half term: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. half-term, half term: Wiktionary
  7. half-term, half term: Dictionary.com
  8. half-term: Rhymezone
  9. half-term: FreeDictionary.org
  10. half-term: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. half-term, half term: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. half term: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. half term: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (half term)

▸ noun:  (UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term.
▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, term.

Similar:
semester, half, trimester, semestre, half-tide, three quartertime, term, quartertime, half birthday, half-time, more...

Opposite:
full term, entire term, complete term

Phrases:
half term holiday, more...

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Similar:
semester, half, trimester, semestre, half-tide, three quartertime, term, quartertime, half birthday, half-time, more...

Opposite:
full term, entire term, complete term

Phrases:
half term holiday, more...



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