Easter term (English, noun)
expansion: Easter term (plural Easter terms)
Senses:
glosses: Synonym of Paschal term (“the fourteenth day of the first lunar month of spring, formerly used in calculating dates”).
tags: historical
topics: law
glosses: The third term of the legal year, running from April to May, during which the upper courts of England and Wales, and Ireland, sit to hear cases.
topics: education
glosses: The summer term of the University of Cambridge, and other educational institutions, running from April to June; equivalent to Trinity term at the universities of Oxford and Dublin. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: Easter terms
tags: plural