half-hour

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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; […].

2. 2
   noun

   a half of an hour

3. 3
   noun

   A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.

From half- + hour.

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