"trimester" meaning in English

See trimester in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/ [UK], /tɹ(a)ɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/ [US], /tɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/ [US] Audio: en-us-trimester.ogg , en-au-trimester.ogg Forms: trimesters [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ) Etymology: PIE word *tréyes From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”). Etymology templates: {{PIE word|en|tréyes}} PIE word *tréyes, {{root|en|ine-pro|*meh₁-}}, {{der|en|fr|trimestre}} French trimestre, {{der|en|la|trimestris||of three months}} Latin trimestris (“of three months”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} trimester (plural trimesters)
  1. A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter. Translations (period of three months): أُثْلُوث (ʔuṯlūṯ) (Arabic), եռամսյակ (eṙamsyak) (Armenian), քառորդ (kʻaṙord) (Armenian), тримесечие (trimesečie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), trimestre [masculine] (Catalan), 三月期 (sānyuèqī) (Chinese Mandarin), trimestr (Czech), kwartaal (Dutch), trimester [neuter] (Dutch), trimestro (Esperanto), kolmekuukautisjakso (Finnish), kolmannes (note: of pregnancy) (Finnish), trimestre [masculine] (French), trimestre [masculine] (Galician), Trimester [neuter] (German), trimeszter (Hungarian), trimester (Indonesian), kuartal (Indonesian), ráithe [feminine] (Irish), trimestre (Italian), ត្រីមាស (trəymiəh) (Khmer), trimestris (Latin), trimester [neuter] (Norwegian), trymestr [masculine] (Polish), trimestre [masculine] (Portuguese), trimestru [neuter] (Romanian), триме́стр (triméstr) [masculine] (Russian), кварта́л (kvartál) (english: quarter of a year) [masculine] (Russian), trimester (Slovak), trimestre [masculine] (Spanish), trimestır (Turkish), çeyrekyıl (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-trimester-en-noun-FDADnjhN Disambiguation of 'period of three months': 78 22
  2. One of the terms of an academic year in those learning institutions that divide their teaching in three roughly equal terms, each about three months long. Compare semester. Categories (topical): Three, Time Synonyms: trisem Hypernyms (term of academic year): term Holonyms (term of academic year): academic year Coordinate_terms (term of an academic year): quarter, semester Translations (term of academic year): أُثْلُوث (ʔuṯlūṯ) (Arabic), քառորդ (kʻaṙord) (Armenian), trimestre [masculine] (Catalan), 學期 /学期 (xuéqī) (Chinese Mandarin), trimester [neuter] (Dutch), trimestro (Esperanto), lukukausi (Finnish), ტრიმესტრი (ṭrimesṭri) (Georgian), trimeszter (Hungarian), 学期 (gakki) (alt: がっき) (Japanese), trymestr [masculine] (Polish), trimestre [masculine] (Portuguese), trimestru [neuter] (Romanian), триме́стр (triméstr) [masculine] (Russian), trimestır (Turkish), çeyrekyıl (Turkish), триме́стр (tryméstr) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: fourth trimester

Inflected forms

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      "word": "ត្រីមាស"
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      "sense": "period of three months",
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "period of three months",
      "word": "trimestır"
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      "sense": "period of three months",
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "քառորդ"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "trimestre"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xuéqī",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "學期 /学期"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "trimester"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "trimestro"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "lukukausi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṭrimesṭri",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "ტრიმესტრი"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "trimeszter"
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "学期"
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
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      "word": "trimestre"
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "триме́стр"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "trimestır"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "term of academic year",
      "word": "çeyrekyıl"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tryméstr",
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      "word": "триме́стр"
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