half-length adjective 2noun 2forms 1 adjective2 •Half the normal length. •Of a portrait, sculpture or a photograph, depicting only the upper half of the subject. noun2 •A portrait or photograph that depicts only the upper half of the subject.His portrait, a half-length painted by Howard, was engraved by Vertue, and re-engraved for the Bibliographical Decameron. — 1880 •Half the length of a horse. formshalf-lengths
