moiety

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: moi=e=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

moiety, n. [F. moitié, L. medietas, fr. medius middle, half. See Mid, a., and cf. Mediate, Mediety.].

•  One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject."  [1913 Webster]
•  An indefinite part; a small part.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

moiety, n. (pl. -ies) Law or literary 1 a half.
2 each of the two parts into which a thing is divided.

Etymology

ME f. OF moit{eacute}, moiti{eacute} f. L medietas -tatis middle f. medius (adj.) middle

THESAURUS

moiety

allotment, allowance, ashram, big end, bigger half, bisection, bit, bite, body, budget, butt, caste, chip, chunk, clan, class, clip, clipping, collop, colony, commission, commonwealth, commune, community, contingent, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, destiny, dividend, division, dole, dollop, economic class, end, endogamous group, equal share, equidistance, extended family, family, fate, fifty percent, fifty-fifty, fragment, gens, gob, gobbet, half, half-and-half, halfway house, halver, helping, hemisphere, hunk, interest, kinship group, lot, lump, measure, mediety, meed, member, mess, mid-distance, midcourse, middle distance, midway, modicum, morsel, nuclear family, order, parcel, paring, part, particle, percentage, phratria, phratry, phyle, piece, portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, rasher, ration, scoop, scrap, section, segment, semicircle, semisphere, settlement, shard, share, shaving, shiver, shred, slice, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, social class, society, splinter, stake, stitch, stock, stump, subcaste, tatter, totem

ROGET THESAURUS

moiety

bisection

N bisection, bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety, bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi.