half-term

1. 1.

   a short vacation about halfway through a school term

   “he came to visit at half-term”

   Broadervacation

   United Kingdom

Questions about half-term

What does half-term mean?

half-term means "a short vacation about halfway through a school term".

How many syllables are in half-term?

half-term has 2 syllables and divides as half--term under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is half-term a common word?

half-term 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.