Definitions for hour
aʊər, ˈaʊ ərhour

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. hour, hr, 60 minutesnoun

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

   "the job will take more than an hour"

2. hour, time of daynoun

   clock time

   "the hour is getting late"

3. hournoun

   a special and memorable period

   "it was their finest hour"

4. hour, minutenoun

   distance measured by the time taken to cover it

   "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hournoun

   A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

   I spent an hour at lunch.

2. hournoun

   A season, moment, time or stound.

3. hournoun

   The time.

   The hour grows late and I must go home.

4. hournoun

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

5. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HOURnoun

   Etymology: heure, French; hora, Latin.

   1. The twenty-fourth part of a natural day; the space of sixty minutes.

   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.

   2. A particular time.

   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.

   3. The time as marked by the clock.

   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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hournoun

   the twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes

2. 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?

3. Hournoun

   fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour

4. Hournoun

   certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers

5. Hournoun

   a measure of distance traveled

6. 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.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Matched Categories

1. • Distance
   • Time Period

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hour' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1025

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hour' in Written Corpus Frequency: #472

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'hour' in Nouns Frequency: #81

How to pronounce hour?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say hour in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of hour in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of hour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of hour in a Sentence

1. Roman Lalich:

   Learn something every, second, every minute, every hour, every day, every month, and every year but remember what the purpose was for learning all those things.

2. Paul Williams:

   What's great is the herd of 30 goats costs about $5,000 for two weeks, it sounds like a lot of money but when you break it down, it's about a dollar a goat per hour. So you can't beat that labor rate!

3. Alexis karpouzos:

   Treasures come in so many ways: The sun that lights the cloudy days, a rose that blooms within an hour. a baby that staring with a wandering gaze, a dolphin’s dance on ocean waves, a sky full of snowflakes of rarest form, a beautiful white and peaceful dove.

4. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fifth, Chapter 2:

   People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

5. Read MoreOne participant:

   At one point, I couldn't feel my fingers( because it was so cold). At the same time my tongue felt frozen, too. i retreated back to halfway down the mountain, and entered a wooden cabin at the direction of a rescuer. There were already about 10 more runners who came down earlier and we waited for rescue in the cabin for about an hour. Eventually about 50 runners came and took shelter in the cabin.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=hour
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hour
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=hour
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hour
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=hour
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=hour
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html