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HALF YEAR

Definition: HALF YEAR

HALF YEAR

1. The space of six months; one term of a school when there are two terms in a year.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: HALF YEAR

English words defined with "HALF YEAR": half-yearlysemester, Semiannually. (references)
Specialty definitions using "HALF YEAR": auroral zoneBalance, BrocklehurstCoasting WaiterRemainderSeymour CrayWhat's a spline?Ziklag. (references)

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Modern Translations: HALF YEAR

Language Translations for "HALF YEAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gjysmë viti, gjashtëmujor (half yearly, of half a year, semester, semiannual, six months). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

семестър (half, quarter, semester, session, term), полугодие. (various references)

   

Czech

  

pùl roku. (various references)

   

French

  

semestre. (various references)

   

German

  

halbjahr (session, six months). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εξάμηνο (semester). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félév (quarter, semester, term). (various references)

   

Italian

  

semestre (semester). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

半年 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

は"ね", は"とし. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alfhay yearay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

semestru (semester, term). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

семестр (half, semester, term). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pola godine. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halvår (six months). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

семестр (half, semester, term), півроку. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: HALF YEAR

Misspellings

"HALF YEAR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: halfyear. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: HALF YEAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-h-l-r-y"

-2 letters: flayer.

-3 letters: alary, areal, early, faery, farle, feral, ferly, flare, flyer, haler, hayer, lahar, layer, leafy, leary, rayah, refly, relay.

-4 letters: aery, afar, alae, alar, alef, alfa, area, aryl, ayah, earl, eyra, fare, farl, feal, fear, flay, flea, fley, frae, fray, haaf, haar, hale, half, hare, harl, heal, hear, herl, hyla, leaf, lear, lehr, lyre, rale, raya, real, rely, rhea, yare, yeah, year.

-5 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, ale, are, arf, aye, ear, elf, era, far, fay, feh, fer, fey, fly, fry, hae, hay, her, hey, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye, rah, ray, ref, rya, rye, yah, yar, yea, yeh.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-h-l-r-y"
 

+5 letters: grandfatherly, halfheartedly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HALF YEAR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 41 4C 46      59 45 41 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000001 01001100 01000110 00100000 01011001 01000101 01000001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#76 &#70 &#32 &#89 &#69 &#65 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004C 0046      0059 0045 0041 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42354640259393552

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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