semester

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

se·mes·ter [semester semesters] BrE [sɪˈmestə(r)] NAmE [sɪˈmestər] noun
one of the two periods that the school or college year is divided into
•the spring/fall semester
see also ↑term
compare ↑trimester

Word Origin:
early 19th cent.: from German Semester, from Latin semestris ‘six-monthly’, from sex ‘six’ + mensis ‘month’.

Example Bank:
•His fall-semester grades were abysmal.
•I spent a semester at the University of Madrid.
•I spent an entire semester studying Chomsky.
•I was finishing my last semester in college and trying to look for a job.
•The course is worth 40 semester credit hours.
•The new semester started on February 3.
•The semester break had begun.
•The total curriculum is 54 semester hours.
•a class I took last semester
•students completing all eight semesters of the program
•the end of the first-semester course