eleventh hour

1. 1.

   the latest possible moment

   “money became available at the eleventh hour”

   “at the last minute the government changed the rules”

   Synonymslast minute

   Broadermoment

Questions about eleventh hour

What does eleventh hour mean?

eleventh hour means "the latest possible moment".

What is another word for eleventh hour?

Close synonyms include last minute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is eleventh hour a common word?

eleventh hour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.