Hour

/aʊə/ · noun

Meaning

(time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
2. A season, moment, or time.
3. (poetic) The time.
4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. (chiefly in the plural) The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
6. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
7. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond

Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond

Near-synonym: microcentury (humorous approximation)

I spent an hour at lunch.

There's a bus at 20 past the hour.

We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.

During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]

It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

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• hours
• hower
• houre
• howre

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