half-hour
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- noun
- /ˈhæfˌaʊər/
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media hora
- Let's take a break for a half hour.
- about a half-hour
- takes about a half-hour
- spend a half-hour
And he spent the next half hour or whatever expressing those things.
- And he spent the next half hour or whatever expressing those things.
- So we're one hour in and we have half an hour, the remaining half hour for your questions.
- We used to have a check every half hour, parade every half hour on the yard count.
- I realised I'd have just sat in mute for the whole half hour.
- So, yeah, so if the kids, so they said they were checking on the kids every half hour, was that, is that incorrect?
- And it was a short time, maybe half hour the most, but meaningful.
- So it's like a half hour process to get this thing done.
Examples
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The day of his test, Max set out alone on the half-hour drive to the county seat.
Academic text (1990) -
A typical visit involves a half-hour of discussion, activity, and instruction with a scientist.
Academic text (1995) -
So it's like a half hour process to get this thing done.
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And we live like it would take us, what, half hour to get home.
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No, we spoke less than a half hour ago.
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Man, my bus got here a half hour ago.
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"I'll check with you every half hour if that is OK, Mr. President."
Fiction book (1990) -
And he spent the next half hour or whatever expressing those things.
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The groups rotated every half hour so that students experienced 30 minutes of each activity each day.
Academic text (2015) -
Let's take a break for a half-hour.
Synonyms
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A period equal to half an hour
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Morphology
Etymology
Half-hour is simply two parts: half, meaning 'one of two equal parts', and hour, meaning 'sixty minutes'. So a half-hour is 'half' of an hour, which is 30 minutes.