ALL meanings of hour
hour
H h - noun hour a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour. 1
- noun hour any specific one of these 24 periods, usually reckoned in two series of 12, one series from midnight to noon and the second from noon to midnight, but sometimes reckoned in one series of 24, from midnight to midnight: He slept for the hour between 2 and 3 a.m. The hour for the bombardment was between 1300 and 1400. 1
- noun hour any specific time of day; the time indicated by a timepiece: What is the hour? 1
- noun hour a short or limited period of time: He savored his hour of glory. 1
- noun hour a particular or appointed time: What was the hour of death? At what hour do you open? 1
- noun hour a customary or usual time: When is your dinner hour? 1
- noun hour the present time: the man of the hour. 1
- noun hour hours. time spent in an office, factory, or the like, or for work, study, etc.: The doctor's hours were from 10 to 4. What an employee does after hours is his or her own business. customary time of going to bed and getting up: to keep late hours. (in the Christian church) the seven stated times of the day for prayer and devotion. the offices or services prescribed for these times. a book containing them. 1
- noun hour distance normally covered in an hour's traveling: We live about an hour from the city. 1
- noun hour Astronomy. a unit of measure of right ascension representing 15°, or the twenty-fourth part of a great circle. 1
- noun hour a single period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation, usually lasting from 40 to 55 minutes. Compare clock-hour. 1
- noun hour Education.. Also called credit hour. one unit of academic credit, usually representing attendance at one scheduled period of instruction per week throughout a semester, quarter, or term. 1
- noun hour the Hours, Classical Mythology. the Horae. 1
- adjective hour of, relating to, or noting an hour. 1
- idioms hour one's hour, Also, one's last hour. the instant of death: The sick man knew that his hour had come. any crucial moment. 1
- noun hour time interval of 60 minutes 1
- noun hour specific time 1
- noun hour time of day 1
- noun hour customary time 1
- noun plural hour business: open 1
- noun hour distance travelled in an hour 1
- noun hour A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes. 1
- countable noun hour An hour is a period of sixty minutes. 0
- noun plural hour People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time. 0
- singular noun hour A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on. 0
- singular noun hour You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour. 0
- countable noun hour If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling. 0
- noun plural hour You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates. 0
- noun plural hour If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it. 0
- noun hour a period of time equal to 3600 seconds; 1⁄24th of a calendar day 0
- noun hour any of the points on the face of a timepiece that indicate intervals of 60 minutes 0
- noun hour the time of day as indicated by a watch, clock, etc 0
- noun hour the period of time allowed for or used for something 0
- noun hour a special moment or period 0
- noun hour the distance covered in an hour 0
- noun hour an angular measurement of right ascension equal to 15° or a 24th part of the celestial equator 0
- noun hour a division of time, one of the twenty-four parts of a day; sixty minutes 0
- noun hour A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day. 0
- noun hour one of the twelve points on a clock, watch, etc. marking the beginning or end of such a division 0
- noun hour A season, moment, time or stound. 0
- noun hour a point or period of time 0
- noun hour (poetic) The time. 0
- noun hour a fixed point or period of time for a particular activity, occasion, etc. 0
- noun hour (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time. 0
- noun hour an indefinite period of time of a specified kind 0
- noun hour A distance that takes an hour to get there by car. 0
- noun hour a period fixed for work, receiving patients, etc. 0
- noun hour the usual times for getting up or going to bed 0
- noun hour the time of day as indicated by a timepiece or as reckoned from midnight to midnight, expressed in hours and minutes 0
- noun hour a measure of the distance usually covered in an hour 0