hour

Meaning

1. A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
2. A season, moment, or time.
3. The time.
4. Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
6. The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
7. A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Concepts

hour

time

o’clock

season

period

clock

hr

while

moment

minute

h

one hour

watch

juncture

time of day

age

day

instant

mile

when

dot

time of the year

working hours

sometimes

weather

appointment

clocking

quite

rather

reasonably

space

stint

temporal

term

New York minute

bit

mo

piece

point

wee

lesson

gallon

occasion

opportunity

60 minutes

epoch

second

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈaʊə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, 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.
Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.

Sentences

The girls have been here nearly half an hour waiting .