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hour

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/aʊə/
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/aʊə/ · /aː(ɹ)/ · /uːɐ/ · /aʊɚ/ (US) · /aː(r)/ · /ɐʋə(r)/ · /ɐwə(r)/

Definition of hour

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
    “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.”
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noun

  1. A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
    “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.”
  2. A season, moment, or time.
    “Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.”
    “From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.”
    “Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.”
  3. (poetic)The time.
    “The hour grows late and I must go home.”
  4. (in-plural)Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
    “By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.”
  5. (in-plural)The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
    “I asked my manager for more hours.”
    “The shop wasn't giving me enough hours so I started searching for a second job.”
  6. (in-plural)The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
  7. (US)A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
    “This place is an hour away from where I live.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”),…

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From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year. Compare horary. Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.

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