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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A half.
  2. n. A part, portion, or share.
  3. n. Anthropology Either of two kinship groups based on unilateral descent that together make up a tribe or society.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A half part or share; one of two equal parts: as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits.
  2. n. A portion; a share.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Half.
  2. n. A share or portion.
  3. n. chemistry A specific segment of a molecule.
  4. n. anthropology Each descent group in a culture which is divided exactly into two descent groups.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of two equal parts; a half
  2. n. An indefinite part; a small part.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe
  2. n. one of two (approximately) equal parts

Etymologies

  1. From the Old French meitié (French moitié), from Latin medietas “half”, from medius “middle, half” (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English moite, from Old French meitiet, moitie, from Late Latin medietās, from Latin, middle, from medius, middle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. half
  1. halt

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  1. social group
  1. half
  1. one-half

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  2. salicylate
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  1. mediety
  1. half
  1. acyl
  1. residue
  1. moiety
  1. part

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  • Casey "Other khepri glanced at Lin. Her skirt was long and bright in the fashion of Salcus Fields: human fashion, not the traditional ballooning pantaloons of these ghetto-dwellers. Lin was marked. She was an outsider. Had left her sisters. Forgotten hive and moiety." From Perdido Street Station by China Meiville. Sep 18, 2011

  • pterodactyl This sounds like it should mean "moistness". Apr 14, 2008

  • arby Also an astrological term: "Moitié is a 15th century French word derived from the Latin medietas, meaning middle. The moiety is the central region of the planetary orb, upon entry of which two planets are said to be in 'application' of aspect, or as we say in modern astrology 'within orb'. " May 25, 2007

  • arby 1. A half. 2. A part, portion, or share. 3. Anthropology Either of two kinship groups based on unilateral descent that together make up a tribe or society.
    ETYMOLOGY: Middle English moite, from Old French meitiet, moitie, from Late Latin mediets, from Latin, middle, from medius, middle. See medhyo- in Appendix I. May 25, 2007

  • brtom Cleanchested. He has washed the upper moiety.
    Joyce, Ulysses, 3 Dec 29, 2006

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