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half-hour en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From half- + hour.

Meanings

1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
2. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.
   • 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. 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN:
   • The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour [sense 1] to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […] 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:

Forms

Deriveds

half-hourlong · half-hourly

Translations (39)

is hálftími (period) · el ημίωρο (period) · sv halvtimma (period) · alt јарым саат (period) · pt meia hora (period) · nrf démi-heuthe (period) · ko 반시간 (period) · sv halvtimme (period) · ru полчаса́ (period) · ar نِصْف سَاعَة (period) · fr demi-heure (period) · fi puolituntinen (period) · el μισάωρο (period) · cs půlhodina (period) · nb halvtime (period) · tr yarım saat (period) · grc ἡμιώριον (period) · pt meia hora (time) · fj veimama na auwa (period) · nn halvtime (period) · be паўгадзі́ны (period) · ang healf tīd (period) · ga leathuair (period) · uk півгоди́ни (period) · nl halfuur (period) · fi puoli (time) · sv halv (time) · my နာရီဝက် (period) · pl pół godziny (period) · de halbe Stunde (period) · it mezz'ora (period) · ta அரை மணிநேரம் (period) · la sēmihōra (period) · cmn 半小時 /半小时 (period) · lt pusvalanduko (period) · fi puoli tuntia (period) · eo duonhoro (period) · ja 半時間 (period) · eo duona horo (period)