half dollar

1. 1.

   a United States coin worth half of a dollar

   Synonymsfifty-cent piece

   Broadercoin

Questions about half dollar

What does half dollar mean?

half dollar means "a United States coin worth half of a dollar".

What is another word for half dollar?

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

half dollar 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.