LAST HALF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does last half mean? 

• LAST HALF (noun)
  The noun LAST HALF has 1 sense:

1. the second of two halves of play

  Familiarity information: LAST HALF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAST HALF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second of two halves of play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

last half; second half

Hypernyms ("last half" is a kind of...):

half (one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval)

 Context examples 

She was thinking only of the last half hour, and as they passed to their seats, her mind took a hasty range over it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The last half hour before he went away!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He thought much of the evils of the journey for her, and not a little of the fatigues of his own horses and coachman who were to bring some of the party the last half of the way; but his alarms were needless; the sixteen miles being happily accomplished, and Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, their five children, and a competent number of nursery-maids, all reaching Hartfield in safety.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)