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hour

UK/aʊə/ US/aː(ɹ)/ very common us

noun

1.

a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

  • “the job will take more than an hour”
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2.

clock time

  • “the hour is getting late”
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3.

a special and memorable period

  • “it was their finest hour”
4.

distance measured by the time taken to cover it

  • “we live an hour from the airport”
  • “its just 10 minutes away”
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Origin

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”).

Phrases

  • 11th hour
  • 12-hour clock
  • 24-hour clock
  • 24-hour day
  • 24-hour flu
  • amateur hour
  • birth hour
  • block hour

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