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Definition of 'hour'

English

Alternative forms

* hower (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia) (en-noun)
  • A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
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  • *1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]
  • *: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
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  • *: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.
  • *{{quote-magazine|date=2014-06-21|volume=411|issue=8892|magazine=(The Economist)
    • |title=[http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21604535-real-sir-isaac-newton-was-not-first-king-reason-last Magician’s brain] |passage=[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.}}
  • A season, moment, time or stound.
  • *(Edgar Allen Poe) (1809-1849), 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.
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  • *:Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
  • (lb) The time.
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  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * stound (obsolete)

    Derived terms

    * ampere-hour * canonical hour * credit hour * eleventh hour * F-Hour * finest hour * flower-of-an-hour * H-hour * half-hour (rel-mid3) * happy hour * hour angle * hour circle * hourglass/hour glass/hour-glass * hourless * hour hand * hourly * kilowatt-hour * man-hour (rel-mid3) * off-hour * on the hour * person-hour * quarter-hour * rush hour * witching hour * zero hour (rel-bottom) (hour)

    Abbreviations

    * Singular: h, hr * Plural: h, hrs

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    Similar to 'hour'

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