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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

à moitié prix

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a mwa.tje pʁi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Half Price/hæf praɪs/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"J'ai acheté ce livre à moitié prix pendant les soldes."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Costing or available for half of the usual price.

    "She managed to get a half-price ticket for the concert last minute."
As adverb
  1. 1

    At half of the usual price.

    "The bookstore was selling all its old stock half-price to clear space for new arrivals."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'half price' originates from Middle English, where 'half' comes from Old English 'healf', meaning 'one of two equal parts', and 'price' derives from Latin 'pretium', meaning 'value or worth'. Over time, the phrase evolved to denote a discount of 50% off the original price.

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