Synonyms for Semester
sɪˈmɛs tərse·mes·ter

Princeton's WordNet

1. semesternoun

   one of two divisions of an academic year

2. semesternoun

   half a year; a period of 6 months

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1. • School Term
   • Time Period

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1. List of paraphrases for "semester":

   half, half-year, holiday, quarter, semesters

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1. Ohio State coach Ryan Day:

   Senior linebacker K’Vaughan Pope has been dismissed from the Ohio State football team. K’Vaughan will continue to have the use of programs that benefit our student-athletes, such as our Student-Athlete Support Service Office, and we will continue to support him with his progress toward graduation. He will remain on scholarship through the end of this semester.

2. Bob Hill:

   The health benefits of standing include a higher heart rate, greater calorie expenditure, musculo-skeletal benefits that come from standing and better posture, more Oxygen flow around the body, and much more, this leads to a better, reengaged student and teacher interaction. Students pay more attention, and it just leads to a more successful semester overall.

3. Wade Armstrong:

   It’s annoying and we’re sad to see the learning loss for our kids, it’s really coming on the heels of the holidays and with spring break coming up soon, it really feels like we’ve barely even had a spring semester.

4. College President Chris Gibson:

   We are on the path to relegating the COVID-19 scourge to endemic status. In the meantime, we must respect the risks and appropriately adapt to the current climate given the arrival of the omicron variant, reflecting on this past fall, we experienced a safe and lively semester, which offered confirmation that our approach to the virus and our commitment to the Siena experience is working. Looking ahead to the spring, I expect the same vibrant atmosphere guided largely by the same protocol that facilitated our successful fall term.

5. Jill Biden:

   This semester I took off. I just took a leave of absence, but if we get to the White House. I mean, I think there would be no better message for teachers to say,' Hey, look who we are.' We need to lift up the profession and celebrate teachers.