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FromMiddle Englishhoure,hour,oure, fromOld Frenchhoure, fromLatinhōra(“hour”), fromAncient Greekὥρα(hṓra,“any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), fromProto-Indo-European*yóh₁r̥(“year, season”). Akin toOld Englishġēar(“year”).Doublet ofhora andyear. Comparehorary.

Partly displaced nativeOld Englishtīd(“time, hour”), whenceModern Englishtide.

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hour (pluralhours)

  2. (time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of aday (sixtyminutes).
    Alternative forms:h(symbol),hr,hrs(alternative symbols)
    Synonym:stound(obsolete)
    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 anhour at lunch.
    There's a bus at 20 past thehour.
    We still have a couplehours left to do in the yard.
    • 1661,John Fell,The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond‎[1]:
      During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteenhours 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[…]
    • 1915,G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, inGossamer, New York, N.Y.:George H. Doran Company,→OCLC:
      It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is anhour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
    • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, inThe Economist, volume411, number8892:
      [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spenthours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
  3. Aseason,moment, ortime.
    Don't come home ever again at this unearthlyhour.
  4. (poetic) Thetime.
    Thehour grows late and I must go home.
  5. (military, in theplural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
    • 2000, T. C. G. James, edited by Sebastian Cox,The Battle of Britain,→ISBN:
      By 1300hours the position was fairly clear.
  6. (chiefly in theplural) The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
    I asked my manager for morehours.
    The shop wasn't giving me enoughhours so I started searching for a second job.
  7. (Christianity, in theplural) The set times of prayer, thecanonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
  8. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
    This place is anhour away from where I live.

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English terms starting with “hour”

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Translations

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time period of sixty minutes
the time
unit to denote the hour, such as military usage in English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hour

  1. alternative form ofhoure

Etymology 2

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Determiner

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hour

  1. alternative form ofoure

Etymology 3

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Determiner

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hour

  1. alternative form ofyour
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