Meaning

3 senses
  1. (idiomatic)A spouse or a significant other.

    Near-synonyms: better half (positive valence), ball and chain (negative valence)

    It depends on what my other half says.

    втора́я полови́наvtorája polovína

  2. (idiomatic)The wealthy; the very wealthy.

    how the other half lives

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other, half.

Examples

35 sentences
  1. Where's the other half of the money?

    Де інша половина грошей? — deniko

    ruГде другая половина денег? — odexed

    deWo ist die andere Hälfte des Geldes? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. We'll see each other in half an hour.

    ruУвидимся через полчаса. — odexed

    deWir sehen uns in einer halben Stunde! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. The other half is yours.

  4. You'll get half the money now, and the other half on completion of the job.

  5. Tom converted about half of his yen into dollars and the other half into euros.

    deTom wechselte circa die Hälfte seiner Yen in Dollar um und die andere Hälfte in Euro. — Dani6187

Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
spouse:

Forms

plural: other halves
Singularother half
Pluralother halves

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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