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Hour
Definitions
- 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"
- 2 distance measured by the time taken to cover it wordnet
- 3 A season, moment, or time.
"Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour."
- 4 a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day wordnet
- 5 The time. poetic
"The hour grows late and I must go home."
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- 6 clock time wordnet
- 7 Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time. in-plural
"By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear."
- 8 a special and memorable period wordnet
- 9 The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time. in-plural
"I asked my manager for more hours."
- 10 The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them. in-plural
- 11 A distance that can be traveled in one hour. US
"This place is an hour away from where I live."
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”), 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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