minute
a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
How often you will meet it
Rank 741 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 25,227 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.012% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour also: min he ran a 4 minute mile
- an indefinitely short time also: moment, mo, second, bit wait just a momentin a mo
- a particular point in time also: moment, second, instant the moment he arrived the party began
- a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree also: arcminute, minute of arc
- a short note the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it also: hour we live an hour from the airportits just 10 minutes away
adjective
- infinitely or immeasurably small also: infinitesimal two minute whiplike threads of protoplasmreduced to a microscopic scale
- characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination also: narrow a minute inspection of the groundsa narrow scrutiny
minute in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mrs. Wiggs's spirits were rising every minute.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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After a minute, close against the wall, I noticed something white.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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His face clouded over for a minute, and he slightly sighed.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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I had not ridden a minute, when I came on a fearful scene.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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And in a minute more, when he looked round, he stopped again, and said, “Why, what a big place the world is!”
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1