hour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
government
military
politics
time
war
Etymology: From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year. Compare horary.
Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.
Inflected forms:
form: hours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: houre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: howre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
gloss: A season, moment, or time.
pos: noun
examples: Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.
Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
gloss: The time.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: The hour grows late and I must go home.
gloss: Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
gloss: The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: I asked my manager for more hours.
The shop wasn't giving me enough hours so I started searching for a second job.
gloss: The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: This place is an hour away from where I live.
Derived words: 11th hour
12-hour clock
24-hour clock
24-hour day
24-hour flu
amateur hour
ampere-hour
amp-hour
birth hour
block hour
blue hour
bottom of the hour
by-hour
canonical hour
clock hour
common hour
convict hour
credit hour
devil's hour
dinner-hour
dinner hour
eleventh hour
eleventh-hour
engine hour
equal hour
equinoctial hour
every hour God sends
evil hour
F-Hour
finest hour
flexihours
flower-of-an-hour
gigawatt-hour
girl-hour
golden hour
Great Hours
half an hour
half-hour
happy hour
hectowatt-hour
H-hour
holy hour
horsepower-hour
hourage
hour angle
hour change
hour circle
hourful
hourglass
hour glass
hour-glass
hour hand
hourless
hourlong
hour-long
hourly
hour of cause
hour of glory
hour of need
hourplate
hourslong
hours-long
hoursworth
hourwise
jobhour
kilogirl-hour
kilohour
kilowatt-hour
kmph
light hour
little hour
long hour
lose an hour of sleep
lumen-hour
lunch hour
machine-hour
magic hour
man-hour
manhour
man of the hour
megawatt-hour
microwatt-hour
midhour
milliwatt-hour
monkey hour
multihour
non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder
off-hour
one-hour fuel
one's hour
on the half hour
on the hour
peak hour
person-hour
petawatt-hour
planetary hour
power hour
quarter-hour
quarter of an hour
room by the hour
rush hour
rush-hour
seasonal hour
student hour
supper hour
supper-hour
temporal hour
terawatt-hour
the darkest hour is always just before the dawn
the darkest hour is just before the dawn
top of the hour
triple witching hour
twenty-four hour clock
twenty-four hour day
unequal hour
ungodly hour
watt-hour
watt-hour meter
wee hour
wee small hour
witching hour
woman-hour
woman of the hour
workhour
work long hours
zero hour
zero-hour contract
Translations:
lang: Abaza
word: сахӏат
roman: saḥat
lang: Abkhaz
word: асааҭ
roman: asaat
lang: Afrikaans
word: uur
lang: Afrikaans
word: stonde
lang: Akan
word: dɔnhwerew
lang: Akkadian
word: simanu
lang: Albanian
word: orë
lang: Aleut
word: chasix̂
lang: Southern Altai
word: саат
roman: saat
lang: Amharic
word: ሰአት
roman: säʾät
lang: Amharic
word: ሰዓት
roman: säʿat
lang: Arabic
word: سَاعَة
roman: sāʕa
lang: Arabic
word: ساعة
roman: sāʕa
lang: Arabic
word: سَاعَة
roman: saʕə
lang: Arabic
word: ساعة
roman: sāʕa
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܫܲܥܬܵܐ
roman: šāʿta
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܣܵܥܲܬ
roman: saʿāt
lang: Aramaic
word: ܫܥܬܐ
roman: šāʕtā’
lang: Aramaic
word: שעתא
roman: šāʕtā’
lang: Argobba
word: ሰዐ
roman: sa'a
lang: Armenian
word: ժամ
roman: žam
lang: Aromanian
word: oárã
lang: Assamese
word: ঘন্টা
roman: ghonta
lang: Asturian
word: hora
lang: Avar
word: сагӏат
roman: saʻat
lang: Azerbaijani
word: saat
lang: Bashkir
word: сәғәт
roman: səğət
lang: Basque
word: ordu
lang: Basque
word: oren
lang: Belarusian
word: гадзі́на
roman: hadzína
lang: Bengali
word: ঘন্টা
roman: ghonṭa
lang: Breton
word: eur
lang: Breton
word: eureier
lang: Breton
word: eurvezh
lang: Bulgarian
word: час
roman: čas
lang: Burmese
word: နာရီ
roman: nari
lang: Buryat
word: час
roman: čas
lang: Buryat
word: саг
roman: sag
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: годи́на
roman: hodýna
lang: Catalan
word: hora
lang: Chechen
word: сахьт
roman: saḥʳt
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ
roman: sutlilodv
lang: Chichewa
word: ola
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鐘頭 /钟头
roman: zung¹ tau⁴
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鐘 /钟
roman: zung¹
lang: Chinese
word: саат
roman: saat
lang: Chinese
word: сахаты
roman: sahatɨ
lang: Chinese
word: сышын
roman: sɨšɨn
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 點鐘 /点钟
roman: dēng-cṳ̆ng
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 小時 /小时
roman: siēu-sì
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 點鐘 /点钟
roman: tiám-chûng
lang: Chinese
word: 點鐘 /点钟
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 小時 /小时
roman: xiǎoshí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鐘頭 /钟头
roman: zhōngtóu
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 鐘頭 /钟头
roman: ¹tson-deu
lang: Chuvash
word: сехет
roman: seh̬et
lang: West Circassian
word: сыхьат
roman: səḥat
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: saya
lang: Cornish
word: eur
lang: Corsican
word: ora
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: saat
lang: Czech
word: hodina
lang: Dalmatian
word: aura
lang: Danish
word: time
lang: Dhivehi
word: ގަޑި
roman: gaḍi
lang: Dutch
word: uur
lang: Dutch
word: stonde
lang: Elfdalian
word: taime
lang: Esperanto
word: horo
lang: Estonian
word: tund
lang: Ewe
word: gaƒoƒo
lang: Faroese
word: tími
lang: Fijian
word: aua
lang: Finnish
word: tunti
lang: French
word: heure
lang: Old French
word: eure
lang: West-Frisian
word: oere
lang: Friulian
word: ore
lang: Galician
word: hora
lang: Ge'ez
word: ሰዐት
roman: säʿät
lang: Georgian
word: საათი
roman: saati
lang: German
word: Stunde
lang: German
word: Schtund
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰
roman: ƕeila
lang: Greek
word: ώρα
roman: óra
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὥρα
roman: hṓra
lang: Greenlandic
word: akunneq
lang: Gujarati
word: કલાક
roman: kalāk
lang: Hausa
word: sa'a
lang: Hausa
word: awa
lang: Hebrew
word: שָׁעָה
roman: sha'á
lang: Hindi
word: घंटा
roman: ghaṇṭā
lang: Hungarian
word: óra
lang: Icelandic
word: klukkustund
lang: Icelandic
word: klukkutími
lang: Icelandic
word: tími
lang: Ido
word: horo
lang: Indonesian
word: jam
lang: Ingush
word: сахьат
roman: saḥʳat
lang: Interlingua
word: hora
lang: Irish
word: uair
lang: Old Irish
word: úar
lang: Istriot
word: ura
lang: Italian
word: ora
lang: Japanese
word: 時
roman: ji
lang: Japanese
word: 時間
roman: jikan
lang: Javanese
word: jam
lang: Kannada
word: ಗಂಟೆ
roman: gaṇṭe
lang: Kannada
word: ತಾಸು
roman: tāsu
lang: Kashubian
word: gòdzëna
lang: Kazakh
word: сағат
roman: sağat
lang: Khmer
word: ម៉ោង
roman: maong
lang: Korean
word: 시
roman: si
lang: Korean
word: 시간
roman: sigan
lang: Kumyk
word: сагьат
roman: sahat
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: seet
lang: Kyrgyz
word: саат
roman: saat
lang: Ladin
word: ora
lang: Ladin
word: ëura
lang: Ladino
word: ora
lang: Lao
word: ຊົ່ວໂມງ
roman: sūa mōng
lang: Latin
word: hōra
lang: Latvian
word: stunda
lang: Lezgi
word: сят
roman: sät
lang: Lithuanian
word: valanda
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Stonn
lang: Macedonian
word: час
roman: čas
lang: Macedonian
word: саат
roman: saat
lang: Malagasy
word: ora
lang: Malay
word: jam
lang: Malayalam
word: മണിക്കൂർ
roman: maṇikkūṟ
lang: Maltese
word: siegħa
lang: Manchu
word: ᡝᡵᡳᠨ
roman: erin
lang: Manx
word: oor
lang: Māori
word: hāora
lang: Marathi
word: तास
roman: tās
lang: Marshallese
word: awa
lang: Mehri
word: سات
lang: Mirandese
word: hora
lang: Mongolian
word: цаг
roman: cag
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠴᠠᠭ
roman: čag
lang: Navajo
word: ahééʼílkid
lang: Navajo
word: óola
lang: Nepali
word: घण्टा
roman: ghaṇṭā
lang: Norman
word: heuthe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: time
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: time
lang: Occitan
word: ora
lang: Odia
word: ଘଣ୍ଟା
roman: ghaṇṭā
lang: Ojibwe
word: diba'igan
lang: Church Slavic
word: година
roman: godina
lang: Church Slavic
word: часъ
roman: časŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: часъ
roman: časŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: година
roman: godina
lang: Oromo
word: saatii
lang: Ossetian
word: сахат
roman: saxat
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: годзина
roman: hodzina
lang: Papiamentu
word: ora
lang: Pashto
word: ساعت
roman: sā'at
lang: Dari
word: سَاعَت
roman: sā'at
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ساعَت
roman: sâ'at
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَسو
roman: tasu
lang: Polish
word: godzina
lang: Portuguese
word: hora
lang: Punjabi
word: ਘੰਟਾ
roman: ghaṇṭā
lang: Romanian
word: oră
lang: Romanian
word: ceas
lang: Romansh
word: ura
lang: Romansh
word: oura
lang: Russian
word: час
roman: čas
lang: Northern Sami
word: tiibmu
lang: Sanskrit
word: घण्टा
roman: ghaṇṭā
lang: Scots
word: oor
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: uair
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: са̑т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ча̏с
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sȃt
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: čȁs
lang: Sicilian
word: ura
lang: Sidamo
word: saate
lang: Sinhalese
word: පැය
roman: pæya
lang: Slovak
word: hodina
lang: Slovene
word: úra
lang: Somali
word: saacad
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: góźina
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: štunda
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: hodźina
lang: Spanish
word: hora
lang: Old Spanish
word: ora
lang: Swahili
word: saa
lang: Swedish
word: timme
lang: Tagalog
word: oras
lang: Tajik
word: соат
roman: soat
lang: Tamil
word: மணி
roman: maṇi
lang: Tamil
word: மணிநேரம்
roman: maṇinēram
lang: Tamil
word: மணித்தியாலம்
roman: maṇittiyālam
lang: Taos
word: ùroʼóna
lang: Tatar
word: сәгать
roman: säğät
lang: Telugu
word: గంట
roman: gaṇṭa
lang: Tetum
word: tuku
lang: Thai
word: ชั่วโมง
roman: chûua-moong
lang: Tibetan
word: ཆུ་ཚོད
roman: chu tshod
lang: Tigrinya
word: ሰዓት
roman: säʿat
lang: Tok Pisin
word: aua
lang: Tumbuka
word: ola
lang: Turkish
word: saat
lang: Turkish
word: sögen
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ساعت
roman: saʾat
lang: Turkmen
word: sagat
lang: Tuvan
word: шак
roman: şak
lang: Udi
word: сагьад
roman: sahad
lang: Ukrainian
word: годи́на
roman: hodýna
lang: Unami
word: awël
lang: Urdu
word: گَھنْٹا
roman: ghanṭā
lang: Urdu
word: گَھنْٹَہ
roman: ghanṭa
lang: Urdu
word: ساعَت
roman: sā'at
lang: Uyghur
word: سائەت
roman: sa'et
lang: Uzbek
word: soat
lang: Venetan
word: óra
lang: Vietnamese
word: giờ
lang: Vietnamese
word: tiếng
lang: Volapük
word: düp
lang: Walloon
word: eure
lang: Welsh
word: awr
lang: Wolaytta
word: saatiya
lang: Yaghnobi
word: соат
roman: soat
lang: Yakut
word: чаас
roman: čaas
lang: Yiddish
word: שעה
roman: sho
lang: Yiddish
word: שטונדע
roman: shtunde
lang: Yup'ik
word: cass'aq
lang: Zhuang
word: cungdaeuz