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Half-hour

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
  2. 2
    a half of an hour wordnet
  3. 3
    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; […]"

Etymology

From half- + hour.

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