Hour

Quick meaning: Hour is a noun meaning (time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

I spent an hour at lunch.

There's a bus at 20 past the hour.

Near-synonym: microcentury (humorous approximation)

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

Word Forms

• hours
• houre

Synonyms for hour

Depending on context, synonyms include stound, microcentury, minute, hr.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include minute, hr, half-hour, hourly, time, times.

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