Usually means: One of two equal parts.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word half:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. half, the half: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. half: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. half, half-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. half: Vocabulary.com
  6. Half: Wordnik
  7. half: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. half, half-: Wiktionary
  9. half, half-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. half: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. half: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. half: Dictionary.com
  13. half: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. half: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Half (disambiguation), Half: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Half: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. half: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. half: Rhymezone
  19. half, half: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. half: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Half, Half: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. half: Free Dictionary
  23. half: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. half: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. half: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. half: Wordnik

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Half: Legal dictionary
  3. half: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. HALF: Acronym Finder
  4. half: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Half: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. half, half: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Half: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. H.A.L.F, Half: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. half: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Half: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Half: Coin Collecting

(Note: See halfing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
noun:  (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
noun:  Half of a standard measure, chiefly:
noun:  (British) half a pint of beer or cider. (Refusing a pint) Just a half, thank you. (Offering to top up a pint glass) Do you want a half in that? (Minimizing the amount of drink taken) A swift half at the Pear Tree.
noun:  (liquor trade) A barrel measure of 27 gallons (half a hogshead).
noun:  (preceded by “a” or a number) The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
noun:  Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
noun:  (slang) A half sibling.
noun:  (UK, dated) A child ticket. Two and a half to Paddington.
noun:  (sports) abbreviated form for half marathon.
adjective:  Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
adjective:  Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
adjective:  (of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
adjective:  (of a relative other than a sibling) Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
adverb:  In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
adverb:  In some part approximating a half.
adverb:  Partially; imperfectly.
adverb:  Practically, nearly.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To halve.
noun:  (numismatic slang) Clipping of half-dollar. [A coin worth one half of a dollar, typically 50 cents.]

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