Halfway means at the middle point between two places, times, or stages. If you're walking from your house to school and you stop halfway, you've covered half the distance and have half still to go. When you're halfway through a book, you've read about half the pages.

The word describes being in the middle of a journey or process. A runner at the halfway point of a race has completed half the distance. A student halfway through the school year has finished one semester and has another ahead. When someone says “Let's meet halfway,” they often mean finding a compromise where each person gives up something to reach an agreement, like when you want to play soccer and your friend wants to play basketball, so you agree to play each game for half the time.

Sometimes people do things halfway, meaning they don't put in full effort or don't finish completely. If you clean your room halfway, you might make your bed and pick up clothes but leave books scattered around.