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half-hour

noun

Etymology

From half- + hour.

  1. derived from *yóh₁r̥✻
  2. derived from ὥρα
  3. derived from hōra
  4. derived from houre
  5. inherited from houre
  6. prefixed as half-hour — “half- + hour”

Definitions

  1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.

  2. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.

    • The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]
    • India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA