Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun half-staff

1 sense of half-staff

Sense 1
half-mast, half-staff -- (a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress)
       => position, place -- (the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place")