better half

Questions about better half

What does better half mean?

better half means "a person's partner in marriage".

What is another word for better half?

Close synonyms include spouse, partner, married person, mate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is better half a common word?

better half is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.