Better Half

Definition: Better Half

Better Half

Noun

1. A person's partner in marriage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Better Half

Marriage

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.

Crosswords: Better Half

Not the better half. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

The Better Half (1918)

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Books

• Living Whole Without a Better Half (reference)

• Murderess Ink: The Better Half of the Mystery (reference)

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His better half the latest laughing success. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expression using "better half": my better half. Additional references.

Albanian

burrë (chap, fellow, husband, Jack, lad, Lord, male, man, mate, men, Mister, my better half), grua (bint, female, Jill, lady, missis, my better half, spouse, wife, woman). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زوجتي (my better half). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съпруга (companion, consort, lady, mate, spouse, uxor, wife, woman), половинка (half). (various references)

Czech

moje lepší polovièka (my better half). (various references)

French

ma femme (my better half). (various references)

German

Ehehälfte. (various references)

Greek 

το έτερο μου ήμισυ (my better half). (various references)

Hungarian

oldalborda (rib), házastárs (consort, spouse, yoke-fellow), feleség (marrow, missus, old woman, rib, wife, wives). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ベクトル値 (bechamel sauce, bed, bed house, bedroom, bedroom community, bedroom scene, best, best condition, best dresser, best member, best ten, best-seller, bet, beta, better, going to bed, having reached the quarterfinals, having reached the semifinals, vector value, vegetable, vegetarian, vest, vet, veteran, Vietnam). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ベターハーフ . (various references)

Pig Latin

etterbay alfhay

Portuguese

cara-metade. (various references)

Romanian

jumãtatea (my better half). (various references)

Russian 

моя супруга (my better half), мой супруг (my better half), жена (missis, missus, rib, the better half, wife, wives), дражайшая половина (the better half). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

moja bolja polovina (my better half). (various references)

Spanish

media naranja. (various references)

Turkish

hayat arkadaşı (goodwife, partner, spouse, yoke mate, yokefellow, yokemate), eş (coequal, companion, compeer, consort, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, couple, doublet, duplicate, dutch, equal, fellow, helpmate, helpmeet, husband, identic, identical, iso-, lady, like, match, matching, mate, old lady, old man, old woman, one of a pair, pair, Parti, partner, placenta, spousal, spouse, the missis, the old woman, wife). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: heartfelt.

-3 letters: abetter, athlete, battler, beretta, blather, blatter, bleater, blether, brattle, breathe, feather, flatter, halbert, haltere, leather, reflate, retable, terefah, theater, theatre, thereat.

-4 letters: aether, afreet, bather, batter, battle, beater, beflea, befret, behalf, belter, berate, bereft, bertha, bethel, better, breath, elater, fabler, falter, father, fatter, feater, fetter, fettle, hafter, halter, hatter, healer, heater.