'Hour' definitions:
Definition of 'hour'
From: WordNet
noun
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" [syn: hour, hr, 60 minutes]
noun
Clock time; "the hour is getting late" [syn: hour, time of day]
noun
A special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"
noun
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: hour, minute]
Definition of 'Hour'
From: GCIDE
- Hour \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.]
- 1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. [1913 Webster]
- Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke xxii. 53. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A measure of distance traveled. [1913 Webster]
- Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster]
- After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor.
- Canonical hours. See under Canonical.
- Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
- Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe.
- Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece.
- Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial.
- Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. --Locke.
- Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
- Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
- The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
- To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hour'
From: Easton
- Hour First found in Dan. 3:6; 4:19, 33;5:5. It is the rendering of the Chaldee shaah, meaning a "moment," a "look." It is used in the New Testament frequently to denote some determinate season (Matt. 8:13; Luke 12:39).
- With the ancient Hebrews the divisions of the day were "morning, evening, and noon-day" (Ps. 55:17, etc.). The Greeks, following the Babylonians, divided the day into twelve hours. The Jews, during the Captivity, learned also from the Babylonians this method of dividing time. When Judea became subject to the Romans, the Jews adopted the Roman mode of reckoning time. The night was divided into four watches (Luke 12:38; Matt. 14:25; 13:25). Frequent allusion is also made to hours (Matt. 25:13; 26:40, etc.). (See DAY.)
- An hour was the twelfth part of the day, reckoning from sunrise to sunset, and consequently it perpetually varied in length.
Synonyms of 'hour'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- annum,
- bell,
- bissextile year,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- common year,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- fateful moment,
- fiscal year,
- fortnight,
- instant,
- interval,
- juncture,
- kairos,
- leap year,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- moment of truth,
- month,
- moon,
- period,
- point,
- pregnant moment,
- psychological moment,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- regular year,
- season,
- second,
- semester,
- session,
- sidereal year,
- solar year,
- space,
- span,
- spell,
- stage,
- stretch,
- sun,
- term,
- the time,
- time,
- time lag,
- time of day,
- time signal,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- week,
- weekday,
- while,
- year
Words containing 'Hour'
- After hours,
- Hourly,
- Hours,
- Canonical hours,
- Hour angle,
- Hour circle,
- Hour hand,
- Hour line,
- Hour plate,
- Kilowatt hour,
- Little hours,
- Post hour,
- Sidereal hour,
- Small hours,
- Solar hour,
- The small hours,
- To serve the hour,
- after-hours,
- canonical hour,
- credit hour,
- eleventh hour,
- for 24 hours,
- happy hour,
- light hour,
- man hour,
- person hour,
- rush hour,
- semester hour,
- witching hour,
- zero hour,
- 24-hour interval,
- Half-hourly,
- To keep bad hours,
- To keep good hours,
- ampere-hour,
- flower-of-an-hour,
- flowers-of-an-hour,
- half-hour,
- horsepower-hour,
- kilometers per hour,
- kilometres per hour,
- man-hour,
- miles per hour,
- quarter-hour,
- watt-hour,
- early-morning hour,
- half-hour glass,
- late-night hour,
- twenty-four hours,
- circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity,
- twenty-four hour period