hour

About 63.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).

   I spent an hour at lunch.

2. noun A season, moment, or time.

   Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.

3. noun The time.

   The hour grows late and I must go home.

4. noun Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. noun The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.

   I asked my manager for more hours.

6. noun The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
7. noun A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

   This place is an hour away from where I live.

Similar words

minute time of day hr half-hour hourly utc time times night noon

Often followed by

of or and to later after before in for

Word family

hours