ELEVENTH HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eleventh hour mean? 

• ELEVENTH HOUR (noun)
  The noun ELEVENTH HOUR has 1 sense:

1. the latest possible moment

  Familiarity information: ELEVENTH HOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELEVENTH HOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The latest possible moment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

eleventh hour; last minute

Context example:

at the last minute the government changed the rules

Hypernyms ("eleventh hour" is a kind of...):

instant; minute; moment; second (a particular point in time)

 Context examples 

The Siwashes had waited on the white people until the eleventh hour, and then departed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He supplicated strength for the weak-hearted; guidance for wanderers from the fold: a return, even at the eleventh hour, for those whom the temptations of the world and the flesh were luring from the narrow path.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)