trimester

From French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹ(a)ɪ.mɛs.tə(ɹ)/, /tɹ(a)ɪˈmɛs.tə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.mɛs.təɹ/, /tɹaɪˈmɛs.təɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

trimester (plural trimesters)

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.

   Synonym: trisem

   The school operates on a trimester schedule.

• (term of academic year): term

• (term of academic year): academic year

• (term of an academic year): quarter, semester

• remitters, trimeters, trimetres

trimester n (singular definite trimestret or trimesteret, plural indefinite trimestre)

1. trimester

• “trimester” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Dutch trimester, from French trimestre, from Latin trimestris (“of three months”), from trēs (“three”) + mensis (“month”).

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• Hyphenation: tri‧mès‧têr

trimèstêr (first-person possessive trimesterku, second-person possessive trimestermu, third-person possessive trimesternya)

1. trimester: a period of three months or about three months.

   Synonyms: kuartal, triwulan

   1. (obstetrics) divisions of pregnancy period, each lasting for approximately 3 months.

• “trimester” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French trimestre, from Latin trimēstris.

trimester c

1. trimester

• trimester in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• trimester in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)