Definition of "better half" [better half]

• Informal One's spouse. (noun)

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• "Next comes Susan Drew, my better half and my editor."
• "Remember me affectionately to all the young ladies of my acquaintance, particularly the Miss Burwells, and Miss Potters, and tell them that though that heavy earthly part of me, my body, be absent, the better half of me, my soul, is ever with them; and that my best wishes shall ever attend them."
• ""No, just put your uncrazy better half in charge," Jenny said."