HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hour mean? 

• HOUR (noun)
  The noun HOUR has 4 senses:

1. a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
2. clock time
3. a special and memorable period
4. distance measured by the time taken to cover it

  Familiarity information: HOUR used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUR (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

60 minutes; hour; hr

Context example:

the job will take more than an hour

Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Meronyms (parts of "hour"):

30 minutes; half-hour (a half of an hour)

15 minutes; quarter-hour (a quarter of an hour)

min; minute (a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour)

quarter (a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hour"):

sidereal hour (1/24 of a sidereal day)

man hour; person hour (a time unit used in industry for measuring work)

Holonyms ("hour" is a part of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

Meaning:

Clock time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

time of day; hour

Context example:

the hour is getting late

Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):

clock time; time (the time as given by a clock)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hour"):

sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)

crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)

none (a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise)

happy hour (the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price)

rush hour (the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work)

zero hour (the time set for the start of an action or operation)

early-morning hour (an hour early in the morning)

aurora; break of day; break of the day; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; daybreak; dayspring; first light; morning; sunrise; sunup (the first light of day)

closing time (the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public)

bedtime (the time you go to bed)

small hours (the hours just after midnight)

midnight (12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night)

late-night hour (the latter part of night)

mealtime (the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten)

high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)

canonical hour ((Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer)

Meaning:

A special and memorable period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

it was their finest hour

Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meaning:

Distance measured by the time taken to cover it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hour; minute

Context examples:

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

Hypernyms ("hour" is a kind of...):

distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)