hour
/aː(ɹ)//aʊə/
hour noun: a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
Noun
hour (plural hours)
- 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
- Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond
- Synonyms:
- stound, microcentury
- 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.c. 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone”, in Archived copy, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2017
- The time.
- The hour grows late and I must go home.
- Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
- By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.2000, T. C. G. James, edited by Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain, →ISBN
- 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 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.
hour meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hour in Hindi
- time period of sixty minutes
- घंटा ghaṇṭā
hour in Tamil
- time period of sixty minutes
- மணி maṇi, மணிநேரம் maṇinēram, மணித்தியாலம் maṇittiyālam
- unit to denote the hour, such as military usage in English
- மணிநேரம் maṇinēram
- the time
- மணி maṇi
hour in Marathi
- time period of sixty minutes
- तास tās
hour in Urdu
- time period of sixty minutes
- گَھنْٹا ghanṭā, گَھنْٹَہ ghanṭa, ساعَت sā'at
More languagesFewer languages
- hour in Bengali
- ঘন্টা ghonṭa, বেলা bela
- hour in Telugu
- గంట gaṇṭa
- hour in Malayalam
- മണിക്കൂർ maṇikkūṟ
- hour in Kannada
- ಗಂಟೆ gaṇṭe, ತಾಸು tāsu
- hour in Punjabi
- ਘੰਟਾ ghaṇṭā
- hour in Gujarati
- કલાક kalāk
- hour in Odia
- ଘଣ୍ଟା ghaṇṭā
- hour in Sanskrit
- घण्टा ghaṇṭā
- hour in Sinhala
- පැය pæya
- hour in Assamese
- ঘন্টা ghonta
- hour in Nepali
- घण्टा ghaṇṭā
- hour in Pashto
- ساعت sā'at
- hour in Tagalog
- oras
- hour in Arabic
- سَاعَة sāʕa, وَقْت waqt
- hour in Malay
- jam
- hour in Indonesian
- jam
- hour in Thai
- ชั่วโมง chûua-moong
- hour in Vietnamese
- giờ, tiếng
- hour in Myanmar
- နာရီ nari
- Sindhi
- ڪَلاڪُ kalāku
- Dhivehi
- ގަޑި gaḍi
Examples of hour in a sentence
- I spent an hour at lunch.
- There's a bus at 20 past the hour.
- We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.
- There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
- He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025:
- Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 3, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
Synonyms of hour
Forms of hour
| plural | hours |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | hower |
| alternative form (obsolete) | houre |
| alternative form (obsolete) | howre |
Origin of hour
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.
Words formed from hour
- 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-hour
- happy hour
- hectowatt-hour
- H-hour
- holy hour
- horsepower-hour
- hourage
- hour angle
- hour change
- hour circle
- hourful
- hourglass
- hour glass
- hour-glass
- hour hand
- hourless
- hour-long
- hourlong
- hourly
- hour of cause
- hour of glory
- hour of need
- hourplate
- hourslong
Phrases with hour
- man hour
- wee hour
- half hour
- long hour
- peak hour
- rush hour
- watt hour
- zero hour
- hour hands
- light hour
- lunch hour
- one's hour
39 more phrasesFewer phrases
- power hour
- little hour
- monkey hour
- on the hour
- supper hour
- hour changes
- hour circles
- hour glasses
- student hour
- ungodly hour
- gigawatt hour
- kilowatt hour
- megawatt hour
- petawatt hour
- seasonal hour
- temporal hour
- terawatt hour
- witching hour
- microwatt hour
- milliwatt hour
- wee small hour
- man of the hour
- men of the hour
- top of the hour
- on the half hour
- room by the hour
- tops of the hour
- rooms by the hour
- woman of the hour
- quarter of an hour
- bottoms of the hour
- quarters of an hour
- triple witching hour
- twenty-four hour day
- twenty-four hour days
- twenty-four hour clock
- twenty-four hour clocks
- the darkest hour is just before the dawn
- the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
Words that rhyme with hour
4 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about hour
- What does hour mean?
- Hour means a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
- What is hour in Hindi?
- Hour in Hindi is घंटा (ghaṇṭā). See Hour meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hour in a sentence?
- I spent an hour at lunch.
- What part of speech is hour?
- Hour is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hour?
- Hour is pronounced /aʊə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hour?
- The plural of hour is hours.
Words near hour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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