hour
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- noun
- /ˈaʊər/
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hora
- The clock chimed at the hour, signaling the start of the event.
- office hours
- morning hours
- evening hours
Train under compulsion at a fixed hour in heat or cold.
- Train under compulsion at a fixed hour in heat or cold.
- What day, what week, what month, what hour, right?
- If you don't have them ready by the hour, they can go.
- Come on that hour I I want to sell.
- So we need to be with it in this hour and being ourselves.
Examples
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In other words, the average American worker generates $13 more per hour than the average Canadian worker.
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The hour is long past.
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So you could be here in an hour, OK?
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You drive there, you do an hour's work and you get that.
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What does the hour before bed look like?
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Think one time for one hour, make a decision and go.
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And I hope we can provide at least an hour away from all of that.
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The president will be addressing the nation and all of you personally within the hour.
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The community center operates after school hours; participation is voluntary, and usually payment is required.
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The survey takes place during regular class hours for all undergraduate sociology classes on campus.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
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The exact hour when something happens
Idioms
Compounds
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3.5
One hour of class each week during a semester that counts toward a degree
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5.1
An amount of electricity equal to one million watts used for one hour
- Formal
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hour comes from Greek hōra, meaning 'time of day' or 'season', and people used it to name parts of the day. That's why we use hour to say a particular time shown on a clock.