sem
/sɛm/ · noun
Meaning
- Half of a school year or academic year such as fall or spring semester.
- A period or term of six months.
- The punctuation mark ;.
- A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.
- A private residential school for girls.
- A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.
- A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.
- (by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.
- Seminal state or polity.
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