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half-hour

[ haf-ouuhr, -ou-er, hahf- ]

noun

  1. a period of 30 minutes.
  2. the midpoint between the hours:

    The clock struck on the half-hour.



adjective

  1. of, relating to, or consisting of a half-hour:

    half-hour programs.

half-hour

noun

    1. a period of 30 minutes
    2. ( as modifier )

      a half-hour stint on the treadmill

    1. the point of time 30 minutes after the beginning of an hour
    2. ( as modifier )

      a half-hour chime

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌhalf-ˈhourly, adverbadjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of half-hour1

late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425
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Example Sentences

But the sunlight is threatening to fade and a three-and-a-half-hour river journey back to Kisangani looms.

As an election tactic, it was a Hail-Mary move: a half-hour address by an aging actor of no political standing or constituency.

The ferries run every half-hour to the Russian mainland, but they take only a few dozen cars on each trip.

He would spend at least a half-hour being decontaminated afterward.

A year earlier the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC had expanded to a half-hour.

We had yet to learn the temperament of a capital, where every half-hour produced a total change of the popular mind.

Coulter could hardly drink, and it was a good half-hour before he felt at all like even speaking.

A half-hour later they were riding under the porte cochere of the inn of the Black Boar.

The housekeeper stood sentry with the broom, and the worthy captains slept on for another half-hour.

Ruth found Mr Bellingham was not yet come down; so she sallied out for an additional half-hour's ramble.

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