Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A period of 30 minutes.
- noun The middle point of an hour.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A period of thirty minutes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A period of
time equal tothirty minutes . - noun The time of thirty minutes past any particular
hour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a half of an hour
Etymologies
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Examples
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Toledo is about a 50-mile drive from Madrid or a half-hour ride on an AVE high-speed train.
Bob Schulman: Sephardic Spain: Mazel Bueno Bob Schulman 2011
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Toledo is about a 50-mile drive from Madrid or a half-hour ride on an AVE high-speed train.
Bob Schulman: Sephardic Spain: Mazel Bueno Bob Schulman 2011
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John would be home in a half-hour, and he could make the decision to call the police or not.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Toledo is about a 50-mile drive from Madrid or a half-hour ride on an AVE high-speed train.
Bob Schulman: Sephardic Spain: Mazel Bueno Bob Schulman 2011
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I fell in love with the place, and every trip we had taken to Hilton Head since then has included a trip to Savannah, about a half-hour away.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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Toledo is about a 50-mile drive from Madrid or a half-hour ride on an AVE high-speed train.
Bob Schulman: Sephardic Spain: Mazel Bueno Bob Schulman 2011
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It's been a half-hour since I ordered fries! elle pouvait faire le canard = she might shut her beak! l'équipe (f) = (lunch) crew
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They can even build internal cliffhangers into a half-hour or hour-long program and use the interruptions to their advantage.
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Yes, because with everything else a truck was blocking the road and so we were stopped for a half-hour or so, and eventually delayed some two hours.
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Toledo is about a 50-mile drive from Madrid or a half-hour ride on an AVE high-speed train.
Bob Schulman: Sephardic Spain: Mazel Bueno Bob Schulman 2011
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