halfway
476
1.3
- adjective
- /ˈhæfˌweɪ/
:
a mitad de camino
- The items were administered in sequence, with a short break halfway through the instrument.
- about halfway
- meet someone halfway
- a halfway point
He lays this out about halfway through the speech.
- He lays this out about halfway through the speech.
- Here's one that comes in about, you know, halfway through the novel.
- And then you're like, we're at the halfway point and I started fresh.
- And I like to start about halfway into my nose.
- I think it, I think it made it halfway through opening night.
- And, and it came down, it came down halfway there just on its own.
Examples
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We should go, said someone halfway through the first act.
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We're halfway there.
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Yeah, my next guest should be halfway through there.
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We only want to go halfway around the unit circle.
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I'm halfway through reading it.
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All of these practical considerations can be met at least halfway through the Music Honors Program.
Academic text (1994) -
We already have an approved site and are halfway through getting a permit for a full-scale facility.
Academic text (1995) -
We're only halfway there.
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By midday, we were not even halfway there, and the water and mangoes were long gone.
Academic text (2008) -
We're only halfway there on our journey to the summit.
Synonyms
116
4.0
In the middle between two other things, neither the start nor the end
40
3.2
Halfway between two places or times
12
3.7
At a point in the middle, not at the start or end
4
6.6
At the same distance from a point or from each other
Compounds
32
4.6
A place where people live while they recover from addiction or return from prison and prepare to live alone
How Far
476
1.3
12
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Halfway comes from the parts half and way, where half means 'half' and way means 'road' or 'path'. So to be halfway is to be 'half the distance along the road', which is why it means in the middle between two points or times.