English Explanatory Dictionary

minute

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A unit of time which is one sixtieth of an hour (sixty seconds).
  2. A short but unspecified time period.
  3. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
  4. A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
  5. A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
  6. A point in time; a moment.
  7. A nautical or a geographic mile.
  8. An old coin, a half farthing.
  9. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a whit.
  10. A fixed part of a module.
  11. A while or a long unspecified period of time.
verb
  1. Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting.
  2. To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
adj
  1. Very small.
  2. Very careful and exact, giving small details.

Pronunciation

mĭn'ĭt /ˈmɪnɪt/ en-uk-a minute.ogg en-us-minute-noun.ogg mīnūt' [maɪ̯ˈnjuːt] [maɪ̯ˈnjʊwt] [maɪ̯ˈn(j)u̟(ː)t] [mɐ̟ɪ̯ˈn(j)u̟(ː)t] [məj-] [mejˈnɪwt] [mæ̠ɪ̯ˈnɪwt] minūt' [mɪˈnjuːt] [mɪˈnjʊwt] [məˈn(j)u̟(ː)t] [mɪˈnɪwt] en-us-minute-adjective.ogg

Word forms

minute minutes minuting minuted minuter more minute minutest most minute

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.

Synonyms

instant jiffy mo moment sec second tic bat of an eye bit blink of an eye crack eyeblink flash glimpse half a mo jiff jot minute New York minute New York second no time span split-second spurt stound tick trice twink twinkle twinkling while minute of arc sexagesm arcminute juncture occasion point in time sith time age spell aeon ages blue moon coon's age crow's age dog's age donkey's years eld eon eternity forever forever and a day interim interlude interval lifetime long haul long run meantime

Antonyms

big enormous colossal huge significant tremendous vast

Related words

mul:min mul:m

Derived words

15-minute city 15 minutes 15 minutes of fame 15 minutes of shame any minute now arcminute a sucker is born every minute at the last minute at the minute by the minute California minute fifteen minutes fifteen minutes of fame five-minute hypothesis football minute for a minute forty minutes of hell four-minute warning hot minute in a minute just a minute last minute last-minute laugh a minute light minute mad minute man-minute Microsoft minute mile-a-minute mile a minute minutage minutary minute bell minute book minuteful minute glass minute gun minute hand minute-jack minute man minute-man minute minder minute pirate bug minute pudding minute repeater minuteslong minute steak minutesworth minute-to-minute multiminute New York minute not a minute too soon one minute man one-minute man one-minute stand one-minute warning red-hot minute seven minutes in heaven talk a mile a minute there's a sucker born every minute

Translations

Armenian: րոպե Catalan: minut Czech: minuta Estonian: minut Finnish: minuutti Greek: λεπτό Hungarian: perc Macedonian: минута Malay: minit Polish: minuta Portuguese: minuto Romanian: minut Russian: мину́та Scots: meenit Scottish Gaelic: mionaid Spanish: minuto Swahili: dakika Swedish: minut Turkish: dakika
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