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A half
Answer for the clue "A half ", 6 letters:
moiety
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Word definitions for moiety in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 half. 2 A share or portion. 3 (context chemistry English) A specific segment of a molecule. 4 (context anthropology English) Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Moiety may refer to: Moiety (chemistry) , a part or functional group of a molecule Moiety (kinship) , either of two groups into which a society is divided An Australian Aboriginal kinship group Native Hawaiian realm ruled by a Mo'i or Ali'i Moiety title ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"an equal half," mid-15c., from Old French moite , earlier meitiet (12c., Modern French moitié ) "half; middle; portion, piece," from Latin meditatem (nominative medietas ) "half," originally "middle point," from medius "middle" (see medial (adj.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of two (approximately) equal parts [syn: mediety ] one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe
Usage examples of moiety.
He stopped, drew his shapes, walked on, stopped, drew, walked, on to the spired old-century cragginess of Nabob Bridge, and over quickly through Kinken where the richer khepri moieties, older money and arriviste, preserved their dreamed-up culture in the Plaza of Statues, kitsch mythic shapes in khepri-spit.
At the same time, knowing that, in addition, your frivolous stepfather has squandered money which is exclusively yours, I have decided to absolve him from a certain moiety of the mortgages on his property, in order that you may be in a position to recover of him what you have lost, by suing him in legal fashion.
He sought to obtain the undivided possession of Palermo, of which one moiety had been ceded to the elder branch.
One half of it--that moiety in which the comfortable proprietress was then seated--was carpeted, and so partitioned off at the further end as to accommodate a sleeping-place, constructed after the fashion of a berth on board ship, which was shaded, like the little windows, with fair white curtains, and looked comfortable enough, though by what kind of gymnastic exercise the lady of the caravan ever contrived to get into it, was an unfathomable mystery.
After his death, the standard rose to ten carats, till in the public distress it was reduced to the moiety.