Definition of hour Hour
/awˈɚ/ - [awer] - hour
We found 17 definitions of hour from 7 different sources.
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What does hour mean?
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NounPlural: hours |
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| hour - clock time; "the hour is getting late" | ||
| time of day | ||
| clock time, time a reading of a point in time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" | ||
| high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon the middle of the day | ||
| mealtime the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | ||
| late-night hour the latter part of night | ||
| midnight 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" | ||
| small hours the hours just after midnight | ||
| bedtime the time you go to bed | ||
| closing time the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public | ||
| sunup, first light, dayspring, daybreak, dawning, cockcrow, break of the day, break of day, dawn, sunrise, aurora, morning the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" | ||
| early-morning hour an hour early in the morning | ||
| sundown, sunset the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon | ||
| crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, fall the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | ||
| none a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier | ||
| happy hour the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price | ||
| rush hour the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work | ||
| zero hour the time set for the start of an action or operation | ||
| hour - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" | ||
| hr, 60 minutes | ||
| time unit, unit of time a unit for measuring time periods | ||
| 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours, day United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) | ||
| sidereal hour 1/24 of a sidereal day | ||
| 30 minutes, half-hour a half of an hour | ||
| 15 minutes, quarter-hour a quarter of an hour | ||
| man hour, person hour a time unit used in industry for measuring work | ||
| min, minute any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province | ||
| hour - distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" | ||
| minute | ||
| hour - a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hour (n.)
The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. - hour (n.)
The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? - hour (n.)
Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. - hour (n.)
Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. - hour (n.)
A measure of distance traveled.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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hour
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hour
owr, n. 60 min., or the 24th part of a day: the time indicated by a clock, &c.: an hour's journey, or three miles: a time or occasion; (pl., myth.) the goddesses of the seasons and the hours: set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.—ns. Hour′-cir′cle, a circle passing through the celestial poles and fixed relatively to the earth: the circle of an equatorial which shows the hour-angle of the point to which the telescope is directed; Hour′-glass, an instrument for measuring the hours by the running of sand from one glass vessel into another; Hour′-hand, the hand which shows the hour on a clock, &c.—adj. Hour′ly, happening or done every hour: frequent.—adv. every hour: frequently.—n. Hour′plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked: the dial.—At the eleventh hour, at the last moment possible (Matt. xx. 6, 9); In a good, or evil, hour, acting under a fortunate, or an unfortunate, impulse—from the old belief in astrological influences; Keep good hours, to go to bed and to rise early: to lead a quiet and regular life; The hour is come, the destined day of fate has come (John, xiii. 1); The small hours, the early hours of the morning; Three hours service, a service held continuously on Good Friday, from noon to 3 P.M., in commemoration of the time of Christ's agony on the cross. [O. Fr. hore (Fr. heure)—L. hora—Gr. hōra.]
Wikipedia 
- An hour (abbreviation: h or hr) is a unit of measurement used to measure time. An hour is equal to 60 minutes. 24 hours are equal to one day. Unlike the second, the hour is not an SI unit.
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🔤- hour, noun, singular of hours.
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