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say it: haf
half is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity". It is pronounced /ˈhæf/ — haf. It carries 6 recorded senses.
consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
“a half chicken”
“lasted a half hour”
one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
“half a loaf”
“half an hour”
“a century and one half”
one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
partially or to the extent of a half
“he was half hidden by the bushes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for half come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.