"half-hour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: half-hours [plural]
Etymology: half- + hour Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|half|hour}} half- + hour Head templates: {{en-noun}} half-hour (plural half-hours)
  1. A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour. Categories (topical): Time Synonyms (a thirty minute period of time): half an hour Translations (period): ἡμιώριον (hēmiṓrion) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), نِصْف سَاعَة (niṣf sāʕa) (Arabic), паўгадзі́ны (paŭhadzíny) (Belarusian), နာရီဝက် (nariwak) (Burmese), 半小時 (Chinese Mandarin), 半小时 (bànxiǎoshí) (Chinese Mandarin), půlhodina [feminine] (Czech), halfuur [neuter] (Dutch), duonhoro (Esperanto), puoli tuntia (Finnish), puolituntinen (Finnish), demi-heure [feminine] (French), halbe Stunde [feminine] (German), μισάωρο (misáoro) [neuter] (Greek), ημίωρο (imíoro) [neuter] (Greek), hálftími [masculine] (Icelandic), leathuair (Irish), mezz'ora [feminine] (Italian), 半時間 (hanjikan) (alt: はんじかん) (Japanese), 반시간 (bansigan) (alt: 半時間) (Korean), sēmihōra [feminine] (Latin), pusvalanduko (Lithuanian), démi-heuthe [feminine] (Norman), halvtime [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), halvtime [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), healf tīd [feminine] (Old English), pół godziny (Polish), meia hora [feminine] (Portuguese), полчаса́ (polčasá) [neuter, plural] (Russian), halvtimme [common-gender] (Swedish), halvtimma [common-gender] (Swedish), півгоди́ни (pivhodýny) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-half-hour-en-noun-KuIAbRuf Disambiguation of Time: 52 48 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms prefixed with half-, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with half-: 79 21 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 87 13 Disambiguation of 'a thirty minute period of time': 91 9 Disambiguation of 'period': 100 0
  2. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour. Categories (topical): Time
    Sense id: en-half-hour-en-noun-sgkLJhOH Disambiguation of Time: 52 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: half hour Derived forms: half-hourly Translations (time): puoli (Finnish), meia [feminine] (Portuguese), halv (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'time': 47 53

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