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SYLLABUS (syllabi)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does syllabus mean?
• SYLLABUS (noun)
The noun SYLLABUS has 1 sense:
1. an integrated course of academic studies
Familiarity information: SYLLABUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An integrated course of academic studies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
course of study; curriculum; program; programme; syllabus
Context example:
he was admitted to a new program at the university
Hypernyms ("syllabus" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Meronyms (parts of "syllabus"):
course of lectures (a series of lectures dealing with a subject)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "syllabus"):
crash course; crash program; crash programme (a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency))
reading program (a program designed to teach literacy skills)
degree program (a course of study leading to an academic degree)
Context examples
You may be completing an important overseas trip during the full moon of February 8-9 or, if you are a professor or instructor at a college, completing your syllabus to give to the Dean.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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