minute – English noun declension

English noun forms of minute

Noun: minute
Singularminute
Pluralminutes

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
  • Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond
  • You have twenty minutes to complete the test.
  • Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively. [2024 November 15, Kristen Rogers, “Want to live an extra 5 to 10 years? Adopt this habit, study suggests”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2025:]
  • give me a minute
  • Wait a minute, I’m not ready yet!
  • We need to be sure these maps are accurate to within one minute of arc.
  • Let’s look at the minutes of last week’s meeting.
  • The Clerk or 'recording Clerk' drafts a minute and then, or at a later time, reads it to the Meeting. Subsequent contributions are on the wording of the minute only, until it can be accepted by the Meeting. Once the minute is accepted, the Meeting moves on to the next item on the agenda. [2008, Pink Dandelion, The Quakers: A Very Short Introduction, page 52:]
  • If you buy this model, you’ll get 100 free minutes.
  • I conked out the minute I got home.
  • Tell her, that I some Certainty may bring; / I go this minute to attend the king. [1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe:]
  • […]according to the Prophecies of him, which were so clear and descended to minutes and circumstances of his passion [1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of the Probable or Thinking Conscience.”, in Ductor Dubitantium, or, The Rule of Conscience in all her Generall Measures Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Cases of Conscience, volume 1:]
  • Oh, I ain't heard that song in a minute!
  • “Man, I haven’t seen you in a minute,” he says, smiling still. “Maybe like two, three years ago?” [2010, Kenneth Ring, Letters from Palestine, page 18:]
  • I seen Too$hort up there. Me and $hort ain't talked in a minute. [2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com:]
  • RON:I remember my first. I was a minute younger than you. […]I remember thinking, saying to myself..."This is the first time I'm eating as a person who killed someone." [2016 November 8, Ben Katai, Josh Corbin, Sharon Lennon, directed by Ben Katai, StartUp(Recapitalization) (StartUp (TV series)), season 1, episode 10 (TV), spoken by Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi):]

Etymology

From Middle English mynute, minute, mynet, from Old French minute, from Medieval Latin minūta (“60th of an hour; note”). Doublet of menu and menudo. See: Middle English Nouns 'mynute'.

Verbs referencing "minute"

Zulu Nouns iminithi.