adj
Meaning 1
Once every half-hour, every 30 minutes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- a half-hourly train service
Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
half-hourly
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adv
Meaning 2
At intervals of a half-hour, every 30 minutes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- Take this medicine half-hourly.
Meaning relationships
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
occurring ever half hour
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adverb
Meaning 4
every thirty minutes, every half hour
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
Etymology
From half-hour + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Russian: получасово́й (polučasovój) — half-hourly
- Southern Altai: јарым сааттыҥ (ǰarïm saattïŋ) — half-hourly
- Arabic: كل نصف ساعة — twice an hour
- Chinese Mandarin: 每半小時 /每半小时 (měi bàn xiǎoshí) — twice an hour
- Esperanto: duonhore — twice an hour
- Finnish: puolen tunnin välein — twice an hour
- German: jede halbe Stunde — twice an hour
- Japanese: 30分おきに (sanjippun oki ni) — twice an hour
- Russian: ка́ждые полчаса́ (káždyje polčasá) — twice an hour
- Russian: два ра́за в ча́с (dva ráza v čás) — twice an hour
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