half-hour

Noun

Meaning

a half of an hour

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

half hour

Synonyms

30 minutes half-moon average half middle mean medium minute hemisphere halfway sock stocking part minutes part-time

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Antonyms

different last right good great whole

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Hypernyms

time unit unit of time

Examples

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour. Amy Tan

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. Walter Cronkite

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month. Geri Halliwell

When I get up, I have a cup of coffee, surf the Internet, then do a half-hour run. Katarina Witt

There's nothing worse than putting two similar shows back-to-back. Viewers don't want to watch one show and then sit through another half-hour of almost the same thing. David Hyde Pierce

Doing a half-hour TV show is a dream. Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Close letter words and terms

half-hip half-hipped half-holiday half-hourlong half-hourly half-human