ten past
Minute hand low
Ten past indicates ten minutes after the hour: It's ten past three.
This phrasing is more common in British English; Americans typically say ten after or simply state the time as three ten.
The pattern extends to other intervals: five past, quarter past, twenty past.
- clock faceNumbered timepiece display
- watch faceTimepiece's readable front
- minuteSixtieth of an hour
- dialGraduated circular indicator
- secondUnit smaller than minute
analog clock · late · punctual · hands · hour · sharp · on the dot · tick · running late · time flies · chime · early · digital clock · stopwatch · fifteen · twenty · alarm · thirty