hour
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
- Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond
- Near-synonym: microcentury (humorous approximation)
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.
The time.
- The hour grows late and I must go home.
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Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
- By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
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.
The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for…
The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
- This place is an hour away from where I live.
The neighborhood
Derived
11th hour, 12-hour clock, 24-hour clock, 24-hour day, 24-hour flu, amateur hour, ampere-hour, amp-hour, birth hour, block hour, blue hour, bottom of the hour, by-hour, canonical hour, clock hour, common hour, convict hour, credit hour, devil's hour, dinner-hour, dinner hour, eleventh hour, eleventh-hour, engine hour, equal hour, equinoctial hour, every hour God sends, evil hour, F-Hour, finest hour, flexihours, flower-of-an-hour, gigawatt-hour, girl-hour, golden hour, Great Hours, half an hour, half-hour, happy hour, hectowatt-hour · +87 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hour. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hour. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at hour
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA