half-hour
nounEtymology From half- + hour.
1
A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
2
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; […]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:
- 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:
- Synonyms
- half an hour
- Derived terms
- half-hourlong, half-hourly