HALF-STAFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-staff mean? 

• HALF-STAFF (noun)
  The noun HALF-STAFF has 1 sense:

1. a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress

  Familiarity information: HALF-STAFF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-STAFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

half-mast; half-staff

Hypernyms ("half-staff" is a kind of...):

place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)