Semi

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sÉ›mi/
• US IPA: /semaɪ/
• Rhymes: -É›mi

Origin

The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.

Full definition of semi

Noun

1. (UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
• 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
• 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain, page 52,The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
2. A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
• 2011, Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run, Allen & Unwin, Australia, unnumbered page,All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
3. A semifinal.
4. (slang) A partial erection.
• 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)The twink got a semi just from that look.

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