half-hour
See also: half hour
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edithalf-hour (plural half-hours)
- A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
- The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
- 1807, [Miss Guion], chapter V, in The Three Germans. Mysteries Exemplified in the Life of Holstein of Lutztein. A German Romance. […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 121:
- The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]
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edit- (a thirty minute period of time): half an hour
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