HALF MAST meaning: Flag lowered to honor deceased

We found 24 dictionaries that define the word half mast:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

half-mast: Merriam-Webster
half-mast, half-mast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
half-mast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
half-mast, half-mast: Collins English Dictionary
half-mast: Vocabulary.com
half-mast: Wordnik
half-mast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
half-mast, half mast: Wiktionary
half-mast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
half-mast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
half-mast: Infoplease Dictionary
Half-mast, half-mast, half mast: Dictionary.com
half-mast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Half Mast (Slight Return), Half-mast, Half mast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Half-mast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
half-mast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
half-mast: Rhymezone
Half-mast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
half-mast: FreeDictionary.org
half-mast: Mnemonic Dictionary
half-mast: TheFreeDictionary.com
half mast: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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half mast: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Half mast)

▸ noun: Alternative form of half-mast [The lowered position, half the height of a mast, at which a flag is flown when mourning, especially expressing respect for the dead.]

Opposite:

full mast, raised, flying high

Types:

half-mast, half-staff, more...

Phrases:

at half mast, to hang the flag half mast high, more...

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