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half term

noun

Definitions

  1. A short school holiday in the middle of the term, generally lasting a week.

    • I have just visited him at his mother's home where he is spending half term and we reminisced while looking at his photo album.
    • Georgia's not a very good correspondent, which is perfectly reasonable at her age, but she didn't come down for half term and then she didn't come for Easter either.
    • “Good idea. The boy seems to be coping quite well, although I had a feeling he wasn't too happy about spending half term in Crete with his old grandpa."

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, term.

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