hour

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
A season, moment, or time.
The time.
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
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.

Pronunciation

owʹər /aʊə/ En-uk-an hour.ogg /aː(ɹ)/ /uːɐ/ owr /aʊɚ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-hour.wav En-us-hour.ogg /aː(r)/ /ɐʋə(r)/ /ɐwə(r)/

Word forms

hour hours hower houre howre

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.

Synonyms

stound microcentury

Related words

mul:h hr hrs

Derived words

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 H-hour holy hour horsepower-hour hourage hour angle hour change hour circle hourful hourglass hour glass hour-glass hour hand hourless hourlong hour-long hourly hour of cause hour of glory hour of need hourplate

Translations

Abaza: сахӏат Abkhaz: асааҭ Afrikaans: uur Afrikaans: stonde Akan: dɔnhwerew Akkadian: simanu Albanian: orë Aleut: chasix̂ Southern Altai: саат Amharic: ሰአት Amharic: ሰዓት Arabic: سَاعَة Arabic: ساعة Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܲܥܬܵܐ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܥܲܬ Aramaic: ܫܥܬܐ Aramaic: שעתא Argobba: ሰዐ Armenian: ժամ Aromanian: oárã Assamese: ঘন্টা Asturian: hora Avar: сагӏат Azerbaijani: saat Bashkir: сәғәт Basque: ordu Basque: oren Belarusian: гадзі́на Bengali: ঘন্টা Breton: eur Breton: eureier Breton: eurvezh Bulgarian: час Burmese: နာရီ Buryat: час Buryat: саг Carpathian Rusyn: годи́на Catalan: hora Chechen: сахьт Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ Chichewa: ola Chinese Cantonese: 鐘頭 /钟头 Chinese Cantonese: 鐘 /钟 Chinese: саат Chinese: сахаты Chinese: сышын Chinese: 點鐘 /点钟 Eastern Min Chinese: 點鐘 /点钟 Eastern Min Chinese: 小時 /小时 Hakka Chinese: 點鐘 /点钟 Chinese Mandarin: 小時 /小时 Chinese Mandarin: 鐘頭 /钟头 Wu Chinese: 鐘頭 /钟头 Chuvash: сехет West Circassian: сыхьат

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