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say it: HAF-tahym
halftime is a noun meaning "an intermission between the first and second half of a game". It is pronounced /ˈhæfˌtaɪm/ — HAF-tahym. It carries one recorded sense.
an intermission between the first and second half of a game
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 halftime 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.