trimester
nounUK /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈt(ʃ)ɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/
Etymology PIE word *tréyes From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).
1
A period of three months or about three months; (financial): quarter.
- She is in the second trimester of her first pregnancy.
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.
- The school operates on a trimester schedule.
- Derived terms
- fourth trimester, midtrimester, trimestral
- Hypernyms
- term
- Holonyms
- academic year