hour

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Etymology

Middle English houre, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hōrā, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yer-, *yor- (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Displaced native Middle English stunde, stound (“hour, moment, stound”) (from Old English stund (“hour, time, moment”)), Middle English ȝetid, tid (“hour, time”) (from Old English *ġetīd, compare Old Saxon getīd (“hour, time”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
    I spent an hour at lunch.
  2. A season, moment, time or stound.
    • Edgar Allen Poe, Alone:
      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.
  3. (poetic) The time.
    The hour grows late and I must go home.
  4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
    • T. C. G. James and Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain:
      By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.

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Abbreviations

  • Singular: h., hr
  • Plural: h., hrs

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Translations

time period of sixty minutes
the time

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