second half

1. 1.

   the second of two halves of play

   Synonymslast half

   Broaderhalf

Questions about second half

What does second half mean?

second half means "the second of two halves of play".

What is another word for second half?

Close synonyms include last half. 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 second half a common word?

second 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.