half-hour

Definitions

1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.
2. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.

Equivalents

Examples

“The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour to wait⟳, ere the approach⟳ of Count⟳ Deckendorff; […]”

“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.”

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