English
Etymology
From half-hour + -ly.
Adjective
half-hourly (not comparable)
- Once every half-hour, every 30 minutes.
- a half-hourly train service
2019 October, “Lee Valley shuttle service launched”, in Modern Railways, page 18:A new half-hourly service between Stratford [Greater London] and Meridian Water was introduced on 9 September by Greater Anglia.
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Translations
half-hourly
- Russian: получасово́й (ru) (polučasovój)
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Adverb
half-hourly (not comparable)
- At intervals of a half-hour, every 30 minutes.
Take this medicine half-hourly.
Synonyms
Translations
twice an hour
- Arabic: كل نصف ساعة
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 每半小時 / 每半小时 (měi bàn xiǎoshí)
- Esperanto: duonhore
- Finnish: puolen tunnin välein
- German: jede halbe Stunde
- Japanese: 30分おきに (sanjippun oki ni)
- Russian: ка́ждые полчаса́ (káždyje polčasá), два ра́за в ча́с (dva ráza v čás)
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