five past
Clock reads :05
Five past indicates five minutes after the hour on a clock: It's five past three.
This British phrasing corresponds to American five after.
The pattern extends to other intervals: ten past, quarter past, half past.
- phraseWords forming partial meaning
- minuteSixtieth of an hour
- hourSixty-minute span
- afterFollowing in time
- momentBrief period of time
clock · analog clock · second · interval · punctuality · late · sundial · schedule · on the dot · just gone · watch · colloquialism · telling time · delay · slightness · time zone · early · transition
magnitude of minutes from the hour
five pastfive to
Minutes until o'clock
half past · ten to · quarter to · on the hour · quarter past
five, past, fives, fifth, fifths, fifteen, fifteenth, fifty, fiftieth