Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Half   /hæf/   Listen
Half

adjective
1.
Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.  "Lasted a half hour"
2.
Partial.  "He did only a half job"
3.
(of siblings) related through one parent only.  "Half sister"  Antonym: whole.
noun
(pl. halves)
1.
One of two equal parts of a divisible whole.  Synonym: one-half.  "Half an hour" , "A century and one half"
2.
One of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval.
adverb
1.
Partially or to the extent of a half.



Related searches:
half a dozen
half binding
half blood
half boot
half brother
half cross stitch
half crown
half dollar
half door
half dozen
half eagle
half gainer
half hatchet
half hitch
half life
half mask
half mile
half nelson
half note
half page
half pound
half rest
half sister
half snipe
half sole
half step
half title
half track
half volley
half-and-half
half-and-half dressing
half-baked
half-blooded
half-bound
half-bred
half-breed
half-brother
half-caste
half-century
half-clothed
half-cock
half-crazed
half-dozen
half-evergreen
half-free morel
half-hardy
half-hearted
half-heartedly
half-holiday
half-hour


1  2     Next

Words per page:
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Half" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was half inclined to take Aboo Din's advice and drop down the stream. Then it occurred to me that I might better face an imaginary foe than the whirlpools and sunken ...
— Tales of the Malayan Coast - From Penang to the Philippines • Rounsevelle Wildman
... ragged and deformed. Nay, having view'd certain pieces of exceeding curious writing of the kind (one of which in the bredth of a two-pence compris'd the Lords prayer, the Apostles Creed, the ten Commandments, and about half a dozen verses besides of the Bible, whose lines were so small and near together, that I was unable to number them with my naked eye,) a very ordinary Microscope, I had then about me, inabled ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... sincerity about the man which seemed to be fighting down the affectation. She hardly knew whether she liked him or not, but she knew that he had interested her and made her talk—for which two things she half forgave ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... a sight—she best knows what she saw. She sent Scoutbush back to the Crimea, to try his chance once more; and then came home to be a mother to those three orphan children, from whom she vowed never to part. So the children went with Frank and her to Aberalva, and Valencia had learnt half a mother's duties, ere she had a ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume II. • Charles Kingsley
... her article she consulted the little nickel watch she carried in her bag and discovered that it was only one o'clock. She had counted on getting through at three or half past. Two hours gained. How could she best use them. The part of the Park where she was sitting was separated from the Hastings grounds only by the winding highroad making its last reach for the top ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org