Synonyms:
half-hour, 30_minutes
Meaning: a half of an hour
Usage examples
I sat down to a humiliating half-hour's thought.
At mid-day we rested for a half-hour to eat lunch.
Before she had begun to put things in order, the clock struck the half-hour.
I had no suspicion that for the last half-hour I had been standing next to my--"
"Why, it is close on the half-hour!" cried Marcella, springing up. "Where are my things?"
The vouchers were produced, and for the next half-hour Mr Fledgeby concentrated his sublime attention on them.
Dicky had not been gone a half-hour after our disagreement over the cat before I was wondering how we both could have been so silly.
From a shelf he took a half-hour glass, reversed it so that the bulb containing the red sand was uppermost, and stood it on the table.
But later, at least once every half-hour through that long forenoon, Susan crept softly through the side hall to the half-open living-room door, where she could watch Keith.
Near the books there always stood a decanter of vodka, and a salted cucumber or a pickled apple lay beside it, not on a plate, but on the baize table-cloth. Every half-hour he would pour himself out a glass of vodka and drink it without taking his eyes off the book.