What does HOUR mean?
Definitions for HOUR
aʊər, ˈaʊ ərhour
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word HOUR.
Princeton's WordNet
hour, hr, 60 minutesnoun
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
"the job will take more than an hour"
hour, time of daynoun
clock time
"the hour is getting late"
hournoun
a special and memorable period
"it was their finest hour"
hour, minutenoun
distance measured by the time taken to cover it
"we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
Wiktionary
hournoun
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
I spent an hour at lunch.
hournoun
A season, moment, time or stound.
hournoun
The time.
The hour grows late and I must go home.
hournoun
Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
Etymology: houre, from houre, from houre, from hora, from ὥρα, from yer-. Akin to. Displaced native stound (from stund), itid (from *ġetīd, compare getīd "hour, time").
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
HOURnoun
Etymology: heure, French; hora, Latin.
See the minutes how they run:
How many makes the hour full compleat,
How many hours bring about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live. William Shakespeare, H. VI.Vexation almost stops my breath,
That sunder’d friends greet in the hour of death. William Shakespeare.When we can intreat an hour to serve,
We’ll spend it in some words upon that business,
If you would grant the time. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.The conscious wretch must all his arts reveal,
From the first moment of his vital breath,
To his last hour of unrepenting death. John Dryden, Æn.The hour runs through the roughest day. William Shakespeare.
Our neighbour let her floor to a genteel man, who kept good hours. Tatler, №. 88.
They are as loud any hour of the morning, as our own countrymen at midnight. Joseph Addison, Guardian.
Wikipedia
Hour
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and scientifically reckoned as 3,599–3,601 seconds, depending on conditions. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. The hour was initially established in the ancient Near East as a variable measure of 1⁄12 of the night or daytime. Such seasonal, temporal, or unequal hours varied by season and latitude. Equal or equinoctial hours were taken as 1⁄24 of the day as measured from noon to noon; the minor seasonal variations of this unit were eventually smoothed by making it 1⁄24 of the mean solar day. Since this unit was not constant due to long term variations in the Earth's rotation, the hour was finally separated from the Earth's rotation and defined in terms of the atomic or physical second. In the modern metric system, hours are an accepted unit of time defined as 3,600 atomic seconds. However, on rare occasions an hour may incorporate a positive or negative leap second, making it last 3,599 or 3,601 seconds, in order to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1, which is based on measurements of the mean solar day.
ChatGPT
hour
An hour is a unit of time equivalent to 60 minutes or one twenty-fourth of a day. It is commonly used to measure and quantify the duration or length of events, activities, or periods of time.
Webster Dictionary
Hournoun
the twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes
Hournoun
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?
Hournoun
fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour
Hournoun
certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers
Hournoun
a measure of distance traveled
Etymology: [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. , orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.]
Wikidata
Hour
The hour is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds. It is approximately 1/24 of a mean solar day. An hour in the Universal Coordinated Time time standard can include a negative or positive leap second, and may therefore have a duration of 3,599 or 3,601 seconds for adjustment purposes. Although it is not a standard defined by the International System of Units, the hour is a unit accepted for use with SI, represented by the symbol h.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hour
owr, 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. [O. Fr. hore (Fr. heure)—L. hora—Gr. hōra.]
Editors Contribution
hour
A unit of time with a specific and known value.
An hour of time was created by a person to put a structure into our perception of time.
Submitted by MaryC on April 24, 2016
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HOUR
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hour is ranked #81458 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Hour surname appeared 232 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hour.
79.7% or 185 total occurrences were Asian.
14.6% or 34 total occurrences were White.
4.3% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'HOUR' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1025
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'HOUR' in Written Corpus Frequency: #472
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'HOUR' in Nouns Frequency: #81
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of HOUR in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of HOUR in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of HOUR in a Sentence
We're happy to bring our customers the convenience of free two-hour delivery through Prime Now and access to thousands of natural and organic groceries and locally sourced favorites, together, we have already lowered prices on many items, and this offering makes Prime customers’ lives even easier.
With this dangerous law, Florida is joining other states in the race to the bottom for limiting women's ability to make their own personal healthcare decisions, not only is the 24-hour mandatory delay medically unnecessary, it could in fact interfere with a woman's health.
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo:
We have communicated back and we are in constant discussion, because to this hour we do not see why the United Kingdom would arrest General Karenzi.
Sensex may close today at 50890. Remain alert for share price fall in the last half an hour. Stock market is merciless because of corporte cos money sucking tricks
That is extremely crazy for gas, i try to pack the days when I go to the office -- if I can do anything right after work or on my hour lunch break I will try to squeeze things in because...it's a day I am already driving.
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- асааҭAbkhaz
- uurAfrikaans
- وَقْت, ساعةArabic
- сагӏатAvaric
- saatAzerbaijani
- сәғәтBashkir
- гадзі́наBelarusian
- часBulgarian
- ঘন্টাBengali
- eurvezh, eur, eureierBreton
- horaCatalan, Valencian
- сахьтChechen
- oraCorsican
- hodinaCzech
- сехетChuvash
- awrWelsh
- timeDanish
- Stunde, Uhr, ZeitGerman
- gaƒoƒoEwe
- ώραGreek
- horoEsperanto
- horaSpanish
- tundEstonian
- oren, orduBasque
- ساعتPersian
- tuntiFinnish
- auaFijian
- tímiFaroese
- heureFrench
- uairIrish
- uairScottish Gaelic
- horaGalician
- ઘંટાGujarati
- שעהHebrew
- घंटाHindi
- óraHungarian
- ժամArmenian
- horaInterlingua
- jamIndonesian
- horoIdo
- klukkustund, klukkutímiIcelandic
- oraItalian
- 時, 時間Japanese
- საათიGeorgian
- сағатKazakh
- ម៉ោងKhmer
- ಘಂಟೆ, ತಾಸುKannada
- 시, 時Korean
- seetKurdish
- саатKyrgyz
- horaLatin
- ຊົ່ວໂມງLao
- valandaLithuanian
- stundaLatvian
- hāoraMāori
- саат, час, часотMacedonian
- മണിക്കൂര്Malayalam
- цагMongolian
- jamMalay
- siegħaMaltese
- နာရီBurmese
- घण्डटाNepali
- uur, stondeDutch
- timeNorwegian
- óola, ahééʼílkidNavajo, Navaho
- oraOccitan
- diba'iganOjibwe, Ojibwa
- ଘଣ୍ଟାOriya
- ਘੰਟਾPanjabi, Punjabi
- godzinaPolish
- horaPortuguese
- oura, uraRomansh
- ceas, orăRomanian
- часRussian
- घण्टाSanskrit
- час, čas, sat, сатSerbo-Croatian
- පැයSinhala, Sinhalese
- hodinaSlovak
- úraSlovene
- saacadSomali
- orëAlbanian
- timmeSwedish
- saaSwahili
- மணித்தியாலம், மணிTamil
- గంటTelugu
- соатTajik
- ชั่วโมงThai
- sagatTurkmen
- orasTagalog
- saatTurkish
- сәгатьTatar
- سائەتUyghur, Uighur
- годи́наUkrainian
- گھنٹا, گھنٹہUrdu
- soatUzbek
- giờ, tiếngVietnamese
- düpVolapük
- שעהYiddish
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