Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

half term

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English

Syllables: half term
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

British usage

noun

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

Example Sentences

"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.""
""We had an extraordinary February half term - I think we had 22,000 visitors in the seven days. Which actually is a bit like bedlam at times.""

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

half terms (plural) half-term (alternative)

Questions

What does half term mean?: A short school holiday in the middle of the term, generally lasting a week.

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