hour
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- noun
- /aʊər/
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hora
- The cabin is about an hour drive from the nearest town.
- an hour's drive
If something is a three hour walk or less, he'll walk it.
- If something is a three hour walk or less, he'll walk it.
- It's this tiny island about four hours off the coast of Cape Town.
- Indianapolis and about an hour outside of Indy is is where I'm at.
- And then we're, it's a six hour drive to Big Sur.
- We are going back to Montevideo, about a three hour drive to catch our flight just.
- And they live in Greystones, Ireland, which is like an hour South of Dublin.
- Niall Horan is from Mullingar, small little town about an hour West of Dublin in Ireland.
Examples
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I'm about an hour drive away from you in Philadelphia.
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Petra is a three, no four, hour drive south of Amman, the capital city.
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Yeah, I think it is an hour away maybe.
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And it used to run just about an hour and a half.
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One thing I can say is that we're about a three hour drive from Boston, MA.
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So I told him, I said, well, we are an hour flight from Florida.
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Poland is now less than an hour's drive from Berlin or a few minutes by fighter plane.
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And they live in Greystones, Ireland, which is like an hour South of Dublin.
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The top five campgrounds one hour from Charleston.
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I live in Spain, in Catalonia, Barcelona, an hour away from Barcelona.
Idioms
Compounds
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One hour of class each week during a semester that counts toward a degree
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An amount of electricity equal to one million watts used for one hour
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One of seven fixed times for prayer during the day in the Roman Catholic Church
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A small plant with yellow flowers that open in the morning and fade by midday
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The distance light travels in empty space in one hour, about one billion kilometers
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A circle on the sky that passes through both celestial poles and a star to show its right ascension
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A time unit astronomers use to divide a day measured by the stars into 24 parts
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Etymology
Hour comes from Latin hora (from Greek hōra), meaning 'a part of the day', and because it measures time people began to use it for distances by travel time. So saying a place is an hour away means it takes about that amount of time to get there.