hour
/ˈaʊɝ/noun2 syllables
Hour means: a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
Synonyms for hour4
What does hour mean?4
noun
1
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day“the job will take more than an hour”
2
clock time“the hour is getting late”
3
distance measured by the time taken to cover it“we live an hour from the airport”
4
a special and memorable period“it was their finest hour”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with hour?11
three syllables
empowerdevour
four syllables
superpower
Show 40 near rhymes
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Hour in a sentence
- After walking for an hour, we stopped to take a rest.CK
- I waited half an hour for my friend, but he didn't turn up.CK
- The clock has two hands, an hour hand and a minute hand.unknown
- Masaru can't finish the work in an hour, can he?CN
- Weather permitting, we will leave in an hour.CC
- As is usual with him, he arrived a quarter of an hour late.CM
- He arrived an hour late, which annoyed me very much.CK
- He arrived half an hour late, which annoyed us very much.CK
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Forms of hour
as a noun
- plural
- hours