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halfendeal

halfendeal noun: a half.

Noun

halfendeal (plural not attested)

  1. (archaic, no plural) A half.

Adverb

halfendeal (comparative more halfendeal, superlative most halfendeal)

  1. (obsolete) Half.
    • now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of halfendeal

comparativemore halfendeal
superlativemost halfendeal

Origin of halfendeal

From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).

Questions about halfendeal

What does halfendeal mean?
Halfendeal means a half.
What part of speech is halfendeal?
Halfendeal can be a noun or an adverb.

Words near halfendeal in the dictionary

  1. halfe-pence
  2. halfed
  3. halfedge
  4. halfedges
  5. halfely
  6. halfendeal
  7. halfer
  8. halfers
  9. Halferty
  10. Halfertys
  11. halfexpect

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