Definitions for hour

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hour hour

Spelling: [ouuh r, ou-er]

IPA: /aʊər, ˈaʊ ər/

Hour is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in hour (horu).

Definitions for hour

noun

1. a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes:
2. any specific one of these 24 periods, usually reckoned in two series of 12, one series from midnight to noon and the second from noon to midnight, but sometimes reckoned in one series of 24, from midnight to midnight:
3. any specific time of day; the time indicated by a timepiece:
4. a short or limited period of time:
5. a particular or appointed time:
6. a customary or usual time:
7. the present time:
8. hours. time spent in an office, factory, or the like, or for work, study, etc.: customary time of going to bed and getting up: (in the Christian church) the seven stated times of the day for prayer and devotion. the offices or services prescribed for these times. a book containing them.
9. distance normally covered in an hour's traveling:
10. Astronomy. a unit of measure of right ascension representing 15°, or the twenty-fourth part of a great circle.
11. a single period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation, usually lasting from 40 to 55 minutes. Compare clock-hour.
12. Education.. Also called credit hour. one unit of academic credit, usually representing attendance at one scheduled period of instruction per week throughout a semester, quarter, or term.
13. the Hours, Classical Mythology. the Horae.

Idioms

1. one's hour, Also, one's last hour. the instant of death: any crucial moment.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or noting an hour.

Origin of hour

1175-1225; Middle English (h)oure Anglo-French; Old French (h)ore Latin hōra Greek hṓrā time, season

Examples for hour

The child almost died from the delay of an hour in seeking help.

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

He was busy almost half an hour, while Uncle Peter smoked in silence.

An hour later, he scored a second flight to Johannesburg for $380.

I was with him when he died, but knew not the hour he departed, for he sunk to rest like an infant.

Very well; bring me what you have at that hour, and we'll strike a trade.

Her phone rings at least once an hour with questions from journalists, which she answers in Arabic, English, and sometimes French.

For more than an hour, there was perfect stillness, as the shades of evening deepened.

There was a long, airy gallery, in which he was allowed to take exercise any hour of the day.

He was released within the hour without a bond on his own recognizance.