hour

Meaning

Noun

• A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
• A season, moment, or time.
• The time.
• Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
• The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
• A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Related

Similar words

• stound
• Singular: h, hr
• Plural: h, hrs

Origin

• From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre#Old_French, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra ("hour"), from Ancient Greek ὥρα ("any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day"), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- ("year, season"). Akin to Old English ġēar ("year"). hora.
• Displaced native Middle English stound ("hour, moment, stound") (from Old English stund ("hour, time, moment")), Middle English itid ("hour, time") from Old English *ġetīd, compare Old Saxon getīd ("hour, time").