hour.
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
Meaning & usage
A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
I spent an hour at lunch.
There's a bus at 20 past the hour.
A season, moment, or time.
Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-der.? Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ Ancient Greek ὥρᾱ (hṓrā)bor. Latin hōra Old French hourebor. Middle English houre English 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.
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