half term

See also: half-term

English

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Noun

half term (plural half terms)

  1. (UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term.
    • 1979, SWT, Social Work Today:
      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.
    • 2011, Marcia Willett, Hattie's Mill, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2011, Patricia Fenn, Poseidon's Trident, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
      “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."
    • 2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 54:
      "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."
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half,‎ term.
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