HALF-HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does half-hour mean? 

• HALF-HOUR (noun)
  The noun HALF-HOUR has 1 sense:

1. a half of an hour

  Familiarity information: HALF-HOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALF-HOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A half of an hour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

30 minutes; half-hour

Hypernyms ("half-hour" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Holonyms ("half-hour" is a part of...):

60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)

 Context examples 

Jane should therefore make the most of every half-hour in which she can command his attention.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This one half-hour had given to each the same precious certainty of being beloved, had cleared from each the same degree of ignorance, jealousy, or distrust.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

We have been looking for you this half-hour.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Another half-hour had brought them so close that every point of their bearing and equipment could be discerned.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But now, could I sit still for one half-hour and do nothing, not even think, it would be the most pleasurable thing in the world.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Clubs, dumbbells, walking, and a half-hour with the mufflers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Many people will be pressuring you to rush work out the door, but remember to take tiny breaks and go to sleep a half-hour earlier each night.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and all were gone into the refectory to tea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But this time she kept away too long, and stayed beyond the half-hour; so she had not time to take off her fine dress, and threw her fur mantle over it, and in her haste did not blacken herself all over with soot, but left one of her fingers white.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It would be better to be this poor Peggotty, or his lout of a nephew, he said, getting up and leaning moodily against the chimney-piece, with his face towards the fire, than to be myself, twenty times richer and twenty times wiser, and be the torment to myself that I have been, in this Devil's bark of a boat, within the last half-hour!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)