ALL meanings of hours
hour
H h - noun hours 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 hours 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 hours any specific time of day; the time indicated by a timepiece: What is the hour? 1
- noun hours a short or limited period of time: He savored his hour of glory. 1
- noun hours a particular or appointed time: What was the hour of death? At what hour do you open? 1
- noun hours a customary or usual time: When is your dinner hour? 1
- noun hours the present time: the man of the hour. 1
- noun hours 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 hours distance normally covered in an hour's traveling: We live about an hour from the city. 1
- noun hours Astronomy. a unit of measure of right ascension representing 15°, or the twenty-fourth part of a great circle. 1
- noun hours a single period, as of class instruction or therapeutic consultation, usually lasting from 40 to 55 minutes. Compare clock-hour. 1
- noun hours 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 hours the Hours, Classical Mythology. the Horae. 1
- adjective hours of, relating to, or noting an hour. 1
- idioms hours 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 hours Plural form of hour. 1
- noun plural hours a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc 0
- noun plural hours one's times of rising and going to bed (esp in the phrases keep regular, irregular, or late hours) 0
- noun plural hours an indefinite period of time 0
- noun plural hours the seven times of the day laid down for the recitation of the prayers of the divine office 0
- noun plural hours the prayers recited at these times 0
- noun plural hours the goddesses of the seasons, justice, order, etc. 0