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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 to thirty 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

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half- +‎ hour

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