1. other half - Noun
2. other half - Phrase
other half (plural other halves)
(idiomatic) A spouse.
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Emily Brontë
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. Harriet Martineau
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. P. L. Travers
One half of the world does not know how the other half lives. German Proverb
One half the world laughs at the other half. German Proverb
It takes half your life to learn who your friends are and the other half to keep them. American Proverb