How do you use the word "term" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "term" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "term": I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term. Your marks were well below average this term.

Term Meaning

/tɜːm/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThat which limits the extent of anything; limit, extremity, bound, boundary, terminus.

nounA chronological limitation or restriction, a limited timespan.

Sentence Examples

I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.

Your marks were well below average this term.

The term is widely used in everyday speech.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

condition

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The doctor used a difficult medical ____ that the patient did not understand.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The contract is for a ____ of three years, with an option to renew for another two years if both sides agree today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-? Proto-Indo-European *ter-? Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ Proto-Italic *termn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *term(e)nos Latin terminus Old French termebor. Middle English terme English term From Middle English terme, borrowed from Old French terme, from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end; in Medieval Latin, also a time, period, word, covenant, etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“stump, end, boundary”). Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms, or boundaries." — 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

"At the decline of day, Winding above the mountain’s snowy term, New banners shone: […]" — 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 268:

"Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary." — 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:

"From 1960 to 1963 I spent my terms at Cambridge University but was back home for the vacs[.]" — 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 45:

"“I don’t believe that the people trust Netanyahu to lead when he is under the burden of such a devastating event that just happened under his term,” he told the Observer." — 2023 October 22, Ruth Michaelson, quoting Ehud Barak, “Netanyahu told to ‘quit now’ as ex-leaders pin blame on dysfunctional government”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

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