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Easter term

British  

noun

  1. the term at the Inns of Court following the Hilary term

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Hynes said he would spend time at St Anne's "early in the Easter term" and he would be available to speak to parents, carers and students.

From BBC Mar. 30, 2026

Peterborough's Hampton Vale Primary Academy plans to install a portable pop-up pool in its playground by the Easter term, so about 400 pupils can have swimming lessons.

From BBC Dec. 1, 2025

Since the middle of the Easter term he had found it necessary to shave his chin and desirable to stimulate the growth upon his upper lip with occasional applications of brilliantine.

From Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham

Pridgin’s alarming burst of work in the Easter term had, contrary to all expectation, not died out.

From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed

Easter term beginneth seventeen days after Easter, endeth four days after the Ascension Day, and hath five returns, Quind.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

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