term – English noun declension

English noun forms of term

Noun: term
Singularterm
Pluralterms

Sample Sentences

  • 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:]
  • "Alright, look...we can spend the holidays with your parents, but this time it will be on my terms."
  • The term of a lease agreement is the period of time during which the lease is effective, and may be fixed, periodic, or of indefinite duration.
  • Be sure to read the terms and conditions before signing.
  • Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]
  • The latest models are available now, on the lowest terms you'll find anywhere, guaranteed.
  • The Cabin is large and commodious, well calculated for the Accommodation of Paſengers. Merchandiſe, Produce, &c. carried on the loweſt Terms. [1793 May 17, John Constable and James Piper, advertisement for a packet-boat between Chestertown and Baltimore, Chestertown, Maryland, :File:Packet_Schooner.jpg]
  • A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
  • "Algorithm" is a term used in computer science.
  • The noun phrase "red blood cell", the acronym "RBC", and the word "erythrocyte" are synonymous terms.
  • We are on friendly terms with each other.
  • 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:]
  • He was sentenced to a term of six years in prison.
  • near-term, mid-term and long-term goals
  • the term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt
  • “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:]
  • A pregnancy didn't come to term.
  • at term
  • preterm
  • postterm
  • My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks, gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again. [1660, Samuel Pepys, Diary:]
  • All the terms of this sum cancel out.
  • One only term is odd in ( 12; 3; 4 ).
  • The subject and predicate of a proposition are, after Aristotle, together called its terms or extremes. [a. 1857, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1859–1860, →OCLC:]
  • The pillers that haue bolſtered vp thoſe tearmes,
  • Are falne in cluſters at my conquering feet. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:]
  • You have been already informed, I have no doubt, of the subject which we have chosen: the adorning a Term of Hymen with festoons of flowers. [1773, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 42:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ter-?
4. Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
5. Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥
6. Proto-Italic *termn̥
7. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
8. Proto-Italic *-nos
9. Proto-Italic *term(e)nos
10. Latin terminus
11. Old French termebor.
12. Middle English terme
13. English term
14. 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”).
15. Doublet of terminus and termon. Old English had termen, from the same source. See: Middle English Nouns 'terme', Latin Nouns 'terminus'.

Verbs referencing "term"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns term, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns term.