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Definition hour

Etymology

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin h?ra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ??ar (“year”).

Displaced native Middle English stunde, stound (“hour, moment, stound”) (from Old English stund (“hour, time, moment”)), Middle English ?etid, tid (“hour, time”) from Old English *?et?d, compare Old Saxon get?d (“hour, time”).

Noun

hour (plural hours)

1. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
2. A season, moment, or time.
3. (poetic) The time.
4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
6. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

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