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this minute

this minute adverb: right now, immediately.

Adverb

this minute (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) right now, immediately
    • 'Sir, I know what to do,' retorted Mrs Pipchin, 'and of course shall do it. Susan Nipper,' snapping her up particularly short, 'a month's warning from this hour.'
      'Oh indeed!' cried Susan, loftily.
      'Yes,' returned Mrs Pipchin, 'and don't smile at me, you minx, or I'll know the reason why! Go along...1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC

this minute meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

this minute in Bengali

এই মুহূর্তে, অবিলম্বে

this minute in Malayalam

immediately, at once, directly
ഈ നിമിഷത്തിൽ, ഈക്ഷണത്തിൽ, ഇക്കണം, ഇപ്പോൾത്തന്നെ, ഉടൻ, ഉടനെ

Questions about this minute

What does this minute mean?
This minute means right now, immediately.
What is this minute in Bengali?
This minute in Bengali is এই মুহূর্তে, অবিলম্বে. See This minute meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is this minute?
This minute is an adverb.

Words near this minute in the dictionary

  1. this is why we can't have nice things
  2. this just in
  3. this mean time
  4. this means war
  5. this meantime
  6. this minute
  7. this morning
  8. this much
  9. this one
  10. this or that
  11. this second

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: this minute (page history and authors); this minute (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); this minute (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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