"half term" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1979, SWT, Social Work Today",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marcia Willett, Hattie's Mill, Hachette UK",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Patricia Fenn, Poseidon's Trident, Andrews UK Limited",
          "text": "“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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A short school holiday in the middle of the term."
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        "(UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, term."
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  "word": "half term"
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          "ref": "1979, SWT, Social Work Today",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marcia Willett, Hattie's Mill, Hachette UK",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Patricia Fenn, Poseidon's Trident, Andrews UK Limited",
          "text": "“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.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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        "A short school holiday in the middle of the term."
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        "(UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term."
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see half, term."
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  "word": "half term"
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