quarter of an hour
Fifteen minutesFifteen minutes.
» This clock strikes the quarter hour.
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1 sensesFifteen minutes.
Will you shut up! You've been talking for the last quarter of an hour.
After half or three quarters of an hour’s chat.
Viertelstunde
че́тверть часа́čétvertʹ časá
Examples
17 sentencesThis clock strikes the quarter hour.
The flight leaves in three quarters of an hour.
deDer Flug geht in fünfundvierzig Minuten. — freddy1
In a quarter of an hour the sun will set.
It takes a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes.
deDas dauert eine Viertelstunde bis zwanzig Minuten. — raggione
From here to the campus takes quarter of an hour.
deVon hier bis zum Campus dauert es 15 Minuten. — madoromi
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
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Forms
plural: quarters of an hour| Singular | quarter of an hour |
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| Plural | quarters of an hour |
irregular · Lesson
Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.