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: half--term. The stress falls on "half-".

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.