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[ haf-ouuhr, -ou-er, hahf- ] / ˈhæfˈaʊər, -ˈaʊ ər, ˈhɑf- /
nouna period of 30 minutes. the midpoint between the hours: The clock struck on the half-hour. adjectiveof, relating to, or consisting of a half-hour: half-hour programs. Origin of half-hourlate Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425 Words nearby half-hourhalfhearted, half hitch, half-holiday, half-hoping, half hose, half-hour, halfhourly, half-human, half-hunter, halfies, half-inch Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for half-hourAs an election tactic, it was a Hail-Mary move: a half-hour address by an aging actor of no political standing or constituency. Remembering Reagan’s Defining Speech|Stuart Stevens|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST The ferries run every half-hour to the Russian mainland, but they take only a few dozen cars on each trip. Crimea: A Patriotic Russian Vacation From Hell|Anna Nemtsova|August 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST He would spend at least a half-hour being decontaminated afterward. ‘He Could Have Brought Ebola Here’: Minnesota Widow on Her Husband|Michael Daly|July 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST A year earlier the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC had expanded to a half-hour. Lyndon Johnson’s Last Miracle: The Civil Rights Act Turns 50|Nicolaus Mills|July 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
McMinnville, Tennessee is less than a half-hour from “the farm” where the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival takes place. Tennessee Not Impressed By Bonnaroo|Daniel G. Hill|June 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST "I was somewhere about this spot when the half-hour struck last night, for your clocks were fast," remarked Rupert. Trevlyn Hold|Mrs. Henry Wood If you could but slip for one half-hour into your mad brother's skin. Margery [Gred], Complete|Georg Ebers And we fought there a half-hour by the clock, till our breath failed us, and never a blow could we get home on one another. Sir Ludar|Talbot Baines Reed A child from three to six years old will require from ten drops to half a teaspoon of the syrup every half-hour till relieved. Housekeeping in Old Virginia|Marion Cabell Tyree "See what this man says: 'If you will only deign to grant me one half-hour,'" she repeated, with an imitation of languor. Sister Carrie|Theodore Dreiser
British Dictionary definitions for half-hour
noun- a period of 30 minutes
- (as modifier)a half-hour stint on the treadmill
- the point of time 30 minutes after the beginning of an hour
- (as modifier)a half-hour chime
Derived forms of half-hourhalf-hourly, adverb, adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |