semester hour

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscredit hour

   Broadercredit

Questions about semester hour

What does semester hour mean?

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

What is another word for semester hour?

Close synonyms include credit 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 semester hour a common word?

semester 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.