Definition of "Easter term"

Easter term

/ˈiːstə tɜːm/

noun
plural Easter terms
1. (historical) Synonym of Paschal term (“the fourteenth day of the first lunar month of spring, formerly used in calculating dates”)
2. (law) 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.
3. (by extension, education) 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.
  Quotations
  There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 3. Easter term, which begins on the tenth day after Easter Sunday, and ends on the day before Whitsunday.
  1813, “University Terms, and How Many are Required to be Kept for each Degree”, in The Oxford University Calendar, for the Year 1813, Oxford: Printed by Munday and Slatter, for J. Parker; and F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ames] Rivington, London, page 65