Phrase guide

quarter of an hour

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

fifteen minutes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: time

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: رُبُع سَاعَة (rubuʕ sāʕa) — fifteen minutes
  • Carpathian Rusyn: че́тверть (čétvertʹ) — fifteen minutes
  • Carpathian Rusyn: фе́рталь (fértalʹ) — fifteen minutes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 一刻 (yīkè) — fifteen minutes
  • Czech: čtvrt — fifteen minutes
  • Danish: kvarter — fifteen minutes
  • Dutch: kwartier — fifteen minutes
  • Esperanto: kvaronhoro — fifteen minutes
  • Esperanto: horkvarono — fifteen minutes
  • Faroese: korter — fifteen minutes
  • Finnish: varttitunti — fifteen minutes
  • French: quart d'heure — fifteen minutes
  • German: Viertelstunde — fifteen minutes
  • Hungarian: negyedóra — fifteen minutes
  • Ingrian: vartti — fifteen minutes
  • Irish: ceathrú uaire — fifteen minutes
  • Italian: quarto d'ora — fifteen minutes
  • Kashubian: wiertel — fifteen minutes
  • Latvian: ceturksnis — fifteen minutes
  • Norman: quart d'heuthe — fifteen minutes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kvarter — fifteen minutes
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kvarter — fifteen minutes
  • Polish: kwadrans — fifteen minutes
  • Russian: че́тверть часа́ (čétvertʹ časá) — fifteen minutes
  • Slovak: štvrť — fifteen minutes
  • Slovene: četrt — fifteen minutes
  • Lower Sorbian: běrtyl góźiny — fifteen minutes
  • Lower Sorbian: běrtylgóźina — fifteen minutes
  • Swedish: kvart — fifteen minutes
  • Turkish: çeyrek — fifteen minutes
  • Welsh: chwarter awr — fifteen minutes
  • Welsh: chwarter-awr — fifteen minutes