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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: half hour

English

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Alternative forms

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• half hour, halfhour

Etymology

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From half- +‎ hour.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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half-hour (plural half-hours)

1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
2. 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; […]Used in both senses.
   • 2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN‎[1]: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.

Synonyms

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• (a thirty minute period of time): half an hour

Derived terms

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• half-hourlong
• half-hourly

Translations

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Arabic: نِصْف سَاعَة (niṣf sāʕa) Belarusian: паўгадзі́ны (pawhadzíny) Burmese: နာရီဝက် (my) (nariwak) Chinese: Mandarin: 半小時 / 半小时 (zh) (bànxiǎoshí) Czech: půlhodina (cs) f Dutch: halfuur (nl) n Esperanto: duonhoro, duona horo Finnish: puoli tuntia, puolituntinen French: demi-heure (fr) f German: halbe Stunde f Greek: μισάωρο (el) n (misáoro), ημίωρο (el) n (imíoro) Ancient Greek: ἡμιώριον n (hēmiṓrion) Icelandic: hálftími m Irish: leathuair Italian: mezz'ora (it) f Japanese: 半時間 (ja) (はんじかん, hanjikan) Korean: 반시간(半時間) (bansigan) Latin: sēmihōra f Lithuanian: pusvalanduko Norman: démi-heuthe f Norwegian: Bokmål: halvtime m Nynorsk: halvtime m Old English: healf tīd f Polish: pół godziny Portuguese: meia hora f Russian: полчаса́ (ru) n pl (polčasá) Swedish: halvtimme (sv) c, halvtimma (sv) c Tamil: அரை மணிநேரம் (arai maṇinēram) Turkish: yarım saat Ukrainian: півгоди́ни (pivhodýny)

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Finnish: puoli (fi) Portuguese: meia hora f Swedish: halv (sv)

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