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HALF-HOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A half of an hour
Synonyms:
30 minutes; half-hour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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:
Betsey and I have been watching for you this half-hour.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I believe you were glad we danced no longer; but I would have given worlds—all the worlds one ever has to give—for another half-hour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“Dear madam,” cried Mrs. Hill, in great astonishment, “don't you know there is an express come for master from Mr. Gardiner? He has been here this half-hour, and master has had a letter.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Watch out for squalls, is all I can say to you,” was Louis’s warning, given during a spare half-hour on deck while Wolf Larsen was engaged in straightening out a row among the hunters.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was so much worse in reality than in my distempered fancy, that afterwards I was attracted to him in very repulsion, and could not help wandering in and out every half-hour or so, and taking another look at him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The first half-hour was lost, for Fanny and Lady Bertram were together, and unless she had Fanny to herself she could hope for nothing.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Her approbation, at once general and minute, warm and incessant, could not but please; and for another half-hour they were all walking to and fro, between the different rooms, some suggesting, some attending, and all in happy enjoyment of the future.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Not another word did Mr. Dick utter on the subject; but he made a very telegraph of himself for the next half-hour (to the great disturbance of my aunt's mind), to enjoin inviolable secrecy on me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She went, however, and they sauntered about together many an half-hour in Mrs. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced, by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
