hour

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   distance measured by the time taken to cover it

   we live an hour from the airport

2. 2
   noun

   a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

   the job will take more than an hour

3. 3
   noun

   clock time

   the hour is getting late

4. 4
   noun

   a special and memorable period

   it was their finest hour

5. 5
   noun

   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

6. 6
   noun

   A season, moment, or time.

   Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.

7. 7
   noun

   The time.

   The hour grows late and I must go home.

8. 8
   noun

   Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.

   By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.

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.