fifty-cent piece

1. 1.

   a United States coin worth half of a dollar

   Synonymshalf dollar

   Broadercoin

Questions about fifty-cent piece

What does fifty-cent piece mean?

fifty-cent piece means "a United States coin worth half of a dollar".

What is another word for fifty-cent piece?

Close synonyms include half dollar. 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 fifty-cent piece a common word?

fifty-cent piece 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.