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RELATED WORDS : better better off better self first half get the better of go off half cocked go one better half half a dozen half assed half baked half binding half blood half boot half breed half brother half cocked half cross stitch half crown half dollar half door half dozen half eagle half gainer half hatchet half hitch half life half mask half mile half moon half nelson half note half page half pint half pound half rest half seas over half sister half snipe half sole half step half time half title half tone half track half truth half volley hell's half acre last half second half six of one and half a dozen of time and a half

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Noun better half has 1 sense

• better half(n = noun.person) married person, mate, partner, spouse - a person's partner in marriage; Array
is a member of man and wife, marriage, married couple
has particulars: bigamist, consort, helpmate, helpmeet, hubby, husband, married man, monogamist, monogynist, honeymooner, newlywed, polygamist, married woman, wife
is a kind of domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent, relation, relative

THESAURUS

better half

common-law wife, concubine, consort, feme, feme covert, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, married woman, mate, matron, old lady, old woman, partner, rib, spouse, squaw, wedded wife, wife, woman, yokemate

ROGET THESAURUS

better half

Marriage

N marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union, intermarriage, miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii, nuptial tie, married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation, match, betrothment, wedding, nuptials, Hymen, bridal, espousals, spousals, leading to the altar, nuptial benediction, epithalamium, sealing, torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen, hymeneal altar, honeymoon, bridesmaid, bridesman, best man, bride, bridegroom, married man, married woman, married couple, neogamist, Benedict, partner, spouse, mate, yokemate, husband, man, consort, baron, old man, good man, wife of one's bosom, helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare, old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife, feme, feme coverte, squaw, lady, matron, matronage, matronhood, man and wife, wedded pair, Darby and Joan, spiritual wife, monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuterogamy, trigamy, polygamy, mormonism, levirate, spiritual wifery, spiritual wifeism, polyandrism, Turk, bluebeard, unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill- assorted marriage, mesalliance, mariage de convenance, marriage broker, matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent, matrimonial bureau, matchmaker, schatchen, married, one, one bone and one flesh, marriageable, nubile, engaged, betrothed, affianced, matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded, nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal, the gray mare the better horse, a world-without-end bargain, marriages are made in Heaven, render me worthy of this noble wife, si qua voles apte nubere nube pari.

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