hour
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noun- 1.
(time) 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
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond
Near-synonym: microcentury (humorous approximation)
I spent an hour at lunch.
There's a bus at 20 past the hour.
We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.
Đồng nghĩa: stound, microcentury
- 2.
A season, moment, or time.
Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
- 3.
(poetic)The time.
The hour grows late and I must go home.
- 4.
(in plural)(military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
- 5.
(in plural)(chiefly in the plural) 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.
- 6.
(in plural)(Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
- 7.
(US)(chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
This place is an hour away from where I live.
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From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (hour), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (year, season). Akin to ġēar year. hora year. Compare horary.