credit hour

1. 1.

   a unit of academic credit; one hour a week for an academic semester

   Synonymssemester hour

   Broadercredit

Questions about credit hour

What does credit hour mean?

credit hour means "a unit of academic credit; one hour a week for an academic semester".

What is another word for credit hour?

Close synonyms include semester hour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is credit hour a common word?

credit hour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.