English Explanatory Dictionary

half-world

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A hemisphere.
  2. A group of people on the fringes of society, a subculture; the demimonde.

Word forms

half-world half-worlds

Etymology

From half + world, in later use after French demi-monde.

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