Definitions for Hours

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Hours hour

Spelling: [ouuh r, ou-er]

IPA: /aʊər, ˈaʊ ər/

Hours is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in Hours (horsu).

Definitions for Hours

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 Hours

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

Examples for Hours

Is it sort of evidence of the Gladwellian 10,000 hours theory?

Bight hours was the time Mr. Gladstone permitted himself to sleep.

But the evils regarding the hours of study and the nature of the studies were as bad.

He flew with Captain Irianto, 53, who had 20,000 hours experience, more than 6,000 hours on the A320.

After a year of that, he'll be taken into the office and his hours will be cut down to eight.

Found it rather long hours watching, namely, about four hours each.

The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

I think he spends hours in that boat, and what he does I can't conceive.