"semester" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /sɪˈmɛstə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /sɪˈmɛstɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-semester.wav [Southern-England] Forms: semesters [plural]
enPR: sĭ-mĕstʹər Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ) Etymology: From German Semester, from New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), from sex (“six”) + mēnsis (“month”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Semester}} German Semester, {{der|en|NL.|sēmestris|t=lasting six months}} New Latin sēmestris (“lasting six months”), {{m|la|sex||six}} sex (“six”), {{m|la|mēnsis||month}} mēnsis (“month”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} semester (plural semesters)
  1. Half of a school year (US) or academic year such as autumn or spring semester. Categories (topical): Time Translations (half of school year): فَصْل دِرَاسِيّ (faṣl dirāsiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), نِصْف سَنَة (niṣf sana) [masculine] (Arabic), فَصْل أَكَادِيمِيّ (faṣl ʔakādīmiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), كورس (kors) [Gulf-Arabic, masculine] (Arabic), سِمِسْتَر (semestər) [Gulf-Arabic] (Arabic), կիսամյակ (kisamyak) (Armenian), семе́стр (sjemjéstr) [masculine] (Belarusian), сэмэ́стар (seméstar) [masculine] (Belarusian), семестър (semestǎr) [masculine] (Bulgarian), semestre [masculine] (Catalan), 學期 (Chinese Mandarin), 学期 (xuéqī) (Chinese Mandarin), semestr [masculine] (Czech), pololetí [neuter] (Czech), půlrok [masculine] (Czech), semester [neuter] (Danish), semester [neuter] (Dutch), semestro (Esperanto), lukukausi (Finnish), semestre [masculine] (French), trimestre [masculine] (French), სემესტრი (semesṭri) (Georgian), Semester [neuter] (German), Halbjahr [neuter] (German), εξάμηνο (exámino) [neuter] (Greek), félév (Hungarian), szemeszter (Hungarian), misseri [neuter] (Icelandic), semester (Indonesian), semestre [masculine] (Italian), 学期 (gakki) (alt: がっき) (Japanese), оқу маусымы (oqu mausymy) (Kazakh), ឆមាស (chɑɑchɑmiəh) (Khmer), 학기 (hakgi) (alt: 學期) (Korean), 반기 (ban'gi) (Korean), semester [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), termin [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), semester [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), termin [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), نیمسال تحصیلی (nimsâl-e tahsili) (Persian), ترم (term) (Persian), semestr [masculine] (Polish), półrocze [neuter] (Polish), semestre [masculine] (Portuguese), semestru [neuter] (Romanian), семе́стр (seméstr) [masculine] (Russian), полуго́дие (polugódije) [neuter] (Russian), polugodište [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), semestre [masculine] (Spanish), termin [common-gender] (Swedish), semestre (Tagalog), hatintaon (Tagalog), sömestir (Turkish), yarıyıl (Turkish), семе́стр (seméstr) [masculine] (Ukrainian), піврі́ччя (pivríččja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), học kỳ (alt: 學期) (Vietnamese), sáu tháng (Vietnamese), סעמעסטער (semester) [masculine] (Yiddish), זמן (zman) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-semester-en-noun-TsKb2Hxk Disambiguation of Time: 58 42 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 99 1 Disambiguation of 'half of school year': 99 1
  2. A period or term of six months. Translations (period or term of six months): полугодие (polugodie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), misseri [neuter] (Icelandic), semester (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-semester-en-noun-87p1yQD6 Disambiguation of 'period or term of six months': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: semestre [obsolete] Derived forms: semester hours, semester school Related terms: bimester, half-year, term, trimester

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          "sense": "half of school year",
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          "lang": "Georgian",
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          "sense": "half of school year",
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "half of school year",
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "exámino",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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          ],
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        },
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          "alt": "がっき",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "gakki",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "学期"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "roman": "oqu mausymy",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "оқу маусымы"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "chɑɑchɑmiəh",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "ឆមាស"
        },
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          "alt": "學期",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "hakgi",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "학기"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "ban'gi",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "반기"
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "termin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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        },
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "termin"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "nimsâl-e tahsili",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "نیمسال تحصیلی"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "term",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "ترم"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "semestr"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "półrocze"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "semestre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "semestru"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "seméstr",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "семе́стр"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "polugódije",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "half of school year",
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "half of school year",
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "half of school year",
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          "word": "termin"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "semestre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "hatintaon"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "sömestir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "yarıyıl"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "seméstr",
          "sense": "half of school year",
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          ],
          "word": "семе́стр"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "pivríččja",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "піврі́ччя"
        },
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "alt": "學期",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "học kỳ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "sáu tháng"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "semester",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "סעמעסטער"
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          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "yi",
          "lang": "Yiddish",
          "roman": "zman",
          "sense": "half of school year",
          "word": "זמן"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "roman": "polugodie",
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          ],
          "word": "полугодие"
        },
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "period or term of six months",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "misseri"
        },
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "period or term of six months",
          "word": "semester"
        }
      ]
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      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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      "tags": [
        "General-American"
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛstə(ɹ)"
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      "roman": "faṣl dirāsiyy",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "half of school year",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "half of school year",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
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      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "Gulf-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "سِمِسْتَر"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kisamyak",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "կիսամյակ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "sjemjéstr",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "семе́стр"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "seméstar",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сэмэ́стар"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "semestǎr",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestre"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "學期"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xuéqī",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "学期"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestr"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "pololetí"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "půlrok"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "semester"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "semestro"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "lukukausi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trimestre"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "semesṭri",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "სემესტრი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Semester"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Halbjahr"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exámino",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "εξάμηνο"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "félév"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "szemeszter"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "misseri"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "semester"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestre"
    },
    {
      "alt": "がっき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gakki",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "学期"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "oqu mausymy",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "оқу маусымы"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "chɑɑchɑmiəh",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "ឆមាស"
    },
    {
      "alt": "學期",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "hakgi",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "학기"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ban'gi",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "반기"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semester"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "termin"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semester"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "termin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "nimsâl-e tahsili",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "نیمسال تحصیلی"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "term",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "ترم"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestr"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "półrocze"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestre"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "semestru"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "seméstr",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "семе́стр"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "polugódije",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "полуго́дие"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "polugodište"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "semestre"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "termin"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "semestre"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "hatintaon"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "sömestir"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "yarıyıl"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "seméstr",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "семе́стр"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pivríččja",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "піврі́ччя"
    },
    {
      "alt": "學期",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "học kỳ"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "sáu tháng"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "semester",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "סעמעסטער"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "zman",
      "sense": "half of school year",
      "word": "זמן"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "polugodie",
      "sense": "period or term of six months",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "полугодие"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "period or term of six months",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "misseri"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "period or term of six months",
      "word": "semester"
    }
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}

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