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half-year

noun

Etymology

From half- + year.

  1. inherited from *yóh₁r̥✻ — “year, spring”
  2. inherited from *jērą✻
  3. inherited from *jār✻
  4. inherited from ġēar
  5. inherited from yeer
  6. prefixed as half-year — “half + year”

Definitions

  1. The period of time equal to half a year

    The period of time equal to half a year; normally referred to as 6 months, but a half-year is more exactly 182.5 days (without a leap day)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for half-year. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA