Hour

['aʊə] or ['aʊɚ]

Definition

(noun.) distance measured by the time taken to cover it; 'we live an hour from the airport'; 'its just 10 minutes away'.

(noun.) a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; 'the job will take more than an hour'.

(noun.) clock time; 'the hour is getting late'.

(noun.) a special and memorable period; 'it was their finest hour'.

Typist: Rudy--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

(n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?

(n.) Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.

(n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

(n.) A measure of distance traveled.

Inputed by Ethel

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Sixty minutes, twenty-fourth part of a day.

Editor: Ozzie

Definition

n. 60 min. or the 24th part of a day: the time indicated by a clock &c.: an hour's journey or three miles: a time or occasion; (pl. myth.) the goddesses of the seasons and the hours: set times of prayer the canonical hours the offices or services prescribed for these or a book containing them.—ns. Hour′-cir′cle a circle passing through the celestial poles and fixed relatively to the earth: the circle of an equatorial which shows the hour-angle of the point to which the telescope is directed; Hour′-glass an instrument for measuring the hours by the running of sand from one glass vessel into another; Hour′-hand the hand which shows the hour on a clock &c.—adj. Hour′ly happening or done every hour: frequent.—adv. every hour: frequently.—n. Hour′plate the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked: the dial.—At the eleventh hour at the last moment possible (Matt. xx. 6 9); In a good or evil hour acting under a fortunate or an unfortunate impulse—from the old belief in astrological influences; Keep good hours to go to bed and to rise early: to lead a quiet and regular life; The hour is come the destined day of fate has come (John xiii. 1); The small hours the early hours of the morning; Three hours service a service held continuously on Good Friday from noon to 3 P.M. in commemoration of the time of Christ's agony on the cross.

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