Complete Definition of "hour"

English

rank|thousand|looking|John|366|hour|air|reason|feel

Etymology
Via ME., from OF. heure, from L. h�ra "hour", from
AGr. ὥ�α (hora) "any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day".

Pronunciation
a|RP|Australia AHD|ou�(r), IPA|/a��(ɹ)/, SAMPA|/aU@(r)/
a|US|Canada AHD|our, IPA|/a�ɹ/ or /a��/, SAMPA|/aUr/
audio|en-us-hour.ogg|Audio (US)
rhymes|a��(r)

Homophones
our (depending on accent)

Noun
wikipedia
en-noun

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

#: I spent an hour at lunch.

  1. poetic The time.

#: The hour grows late and I must go home.

Derived terms
happy hour
hourglass
hour hand
hourly
on the hour
witching hour

Translations
trans-top|time period of sixty minutes
Albanian: t-|sq|orë|f|xs=Albanian
Arabic: ARchar|ساعة IPAchar|(s��a) f
Aramaic:

Basque: ordu
Bosnian: t-|bs|sat|m
Breton: eur f, eurioù p, eureier, eurvezh f, eurvezhioù p
Bulgarian: �а� (�as) m
Catalan: hora f :ca:hora|^
Chinese: ��, �� (xi�oshí)
Croatian: t+|hr|sat|m, t-|hr|ura|f, t-|hr|�as|m
Dutch: uur n, stonde f
Esperanto: t-|eo|horo|xs=Esperanto
Ewe: ga�o�o
Finnish: tunti (:fi:tunti|Suomi)
French: t+|fr|heure|f
Galician: hora f
German: t+|de|Stunde|f, t+|de|Uhr|f
Greek, Ancient: IPAchar|ὥ�α (hóra) f
Greek: t+|el|��α|f|sc=Grek (óra)
Hebrew: שע� (shah-AH) f
Hindi: ���ा (gha.nt'�)
Hungarian: t+|hu|óra
Icelandic: t+|is|klukkustund, t+|is|klukkutími
Indonesian: t-|id|jam|xs=Indonesian
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Interlingua: hora
Italian: t+|it|ora|f
Japanese: � (�, ji), �� (���, jikan)
Korean: � [�] (si)
Kurdish: seet, 60 deqe
Lithuanian: t-|lt|valanda|f|xs=Lithuanian
Latvian: t-|lv|stunda|f|xs=Latvian
Malay: t-|ms|jam|xs=Malay
Maltese: t-|mt|siegħa|xs=Maltese
Norwegian: t+|no|time
Novial: hore
Ojibwe: diba'igan
Polish: t+|pl|godzina|f
Portuguese: t+|pt|hora|f
Punjabi �ੰ�ਾ (gha�ṭ�)
Romanian: t-|ro|or�|f, t+|ro|ceas|m|f
Russian: �а� (�as) f
Scots: hoor
Scottish Gaelic: uair
Slovene: t+|sl|ura|f
Spanish: t+|es|hora|f
Swedish: t+|sv|timme|c
Telugu: ��� (gaMTa)
Turkish: t+|tr|saat
Urdu: URchar|گھ�ٹا (gha.nt'�), URchar|گھ�ٹ� (gha.nt'a)
Welsh: t-|cy|awr|f|xs=Welsh
Yiddish: שע� (sho) f
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trans-top|the time
Galician: hora f
German: t+|de|Zeit|f, t+|de|Uhr
trans-mid
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