MINUTES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does minutes mean? 

• MINUTES (noun)
  The noun MINUTES has 1 sense:

1. a written account of what transpired at a meeting

  Familiarity information: MINUTES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINUTES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written account of what transpired at a meeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

minutes; proceedings; transactions

Hypernyms ("minutes" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "minutes"):

Congressional Record (a published written account of the speeches and debates and votes of the United States Congress)

Hansard (the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament)

Holonyms ("minutes" is a part of...):

minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)

 Context examples 

It was twenty-five minutes to twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For many minutes he stood and waited.

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

I feel that I have but a few minutes; and then I must go back to death—or worse! Wet my lips with brandy again.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I felt that I could survive but a few minutes.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I give you five minutes, Mr. Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ten minutes’ talk with you, my good sir,” said Holmes in the sweetest of voices.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a few minutes it really did seem as if kind spirits had been at work there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As I emerged from my unconsciousness—which could not, I think, have lasted more than a few minutes—I was aware of a most dreadful and penetrating smell.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is past eleven o'clock: I heard it strike some minutes since.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Within the first five minutes I said, 'I will be at Bath on Wednesday,' and I was.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)