other half

noun

1. the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made:

   a glimpse of how the other half lives.

2. Informal. one's spouse.

Example Sentences

STAYC’s charisma is on full display as the members playfully ask for their other halves to appear before them, well, ASAP.

From Time

Half of the students will be vaccinated immediately, with the other half vaccinated four months later.

From Time

Half come Tuesdays and Thursdays and the other half, Wednesdays and Fridays.

From Voice of San Diego

Our results paint a picture in which roughly half of the ancestry of the Columbian mammoth could be traced to the Krestovka lineage and the other half to the woolly mammoth lineage.

From Singularity Hub 

Half of them would ask questions, the other half would answer.

From Freakonomics

Or perhaps an appreciative other-half has pressed your hand and whispered, "You are the bravest little woman in the world!"

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bride
• companion
• partner
• roommate
• spouse