hour

a measurement of time: I’ll be ready in an hour.
Not to be confused with:our – belonging to us; possessive of we: We have our new home.

hour

H0295500 (our)n.1. One of the 24 equal parts of a day.2. a. One of the points on a timepiece marking off 12 or 24 successive intervals of 60 minutes, from midnight to noon and noon to midnight or from midnight to midnight.b. The time of day indicated by a 12-hour clock.c. hours The time of day determined on a 24-hour basis: 1730 hours is 5:30 pm.3. A unit of measure of longitude or right ascension, equal to 15° or ¹/₂₄ of a great circle.4. a. A customary or fixed time: the dinner hour.b. hours A set or customary period of time for a specified activity: banking hours.5. a. A particular time: their hour of need.b. A significant time: Her hour had come.c. The present time: the man of the hour.6. a. The work that can be accomplished in an hour.b. The distance that can be traveled in an hour.7. a. A single session of a school day or class.b. A credit hour.8. hours Ecclesiastical The canonical hours.Idiom: long hours A longer than usual or customary period of time for a given activity: worked long hours to finish the project on time.

[Middle English, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra, from Greek hōrā, season, time; see yēr- in Indo-European roots.]

hour

(aʊə) n1. (Units) a period of time equal to 3600 seconds; th of a calendar day. 2. (Horology) any of the points on the face of a timepiece that indicate intervals of 60 minutes3. the hour an exact number of complete hours: the bus leaves on the hour. 4. (Horology) the time of day as indicated by a watch, clock, etc5. the period of time allowed for or used for something: the lunch hour; the hour of prayer. 6. a special moment or period: our finest hour. 7. the hour the present time: the man of the hour. 8. the distance covered in an hour: we live an hour from the city. 9. (Astronomy) astronomy an angular measurement of right ascension equal to 15° or a 24th part of the celestial equator10. one's hour a. a time of success, fame, etcb. Also: one's last hour the time of one's death: his hour had come. 11. take one's hour informal Irish to do something in a leisurely manner[C13: from Old French hore, from Latin hōra, from Greek: season]

hour

(aʊ^ər, ˈaʊ ər)

n. 1. a period of time equal to 1/24 of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes. 2. any specific one of these 24 periods, usu. reckoned in two series of 12, one series from midnight to noon and the second from noon to midnight, but sometimes reckoned (esp. in military and non-U.S. usage) in one series of 24, from midnight to midnight: He slept for the hour between 2 and 3 a. m. The hour for the bombardment was between 1330 (1:30 p.m.) and 1400 (2:00 p.m.). 3. any specific time of day; the time indicated by a timepiece: What is the hour? 4. a short or limited period of time: one's hour of glory. 5. a particular or appointed time: At what hour do you open? 6. a customary or usual time: dinner hour. 7. the present time: the issues of the hour. 8. hours, a. time spent at a workplace or in working, studying, etc. b. customary time of going to bed and getting up: to keep late hours. c. (in the Christian church) the seven stated times of the day for prayer and devotion. d. the offices or services prescribed for these times. e. a book containing them. 9. the distance normally covered in an hour's traveling: We live about an hour from the city. 10. a unit of measure of right ascension representing 15°, or the 24th part of a great circle. 11. a single period, as of instruction or therapy, usu. lasting from 40 to 55 minutes. 12. credit hour. [1175–1225; < Old French (h)ore < Latin hōra < Greek hṓrā time, season]

hour

(hr) A unit of time measurement equal to 60 min (3600 s).

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hour - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"60 minutes, hrtime unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"sidereal hour - 1/24 of a sidereal day30 minutes, half-hour - a half of an hour15 minutes, quarter-hour - a quarter of an hourman hour, person hour - a time unit used in industry for measuring workmin, minute - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile"quarter - a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"
	2.	hour - clock time; "the hour is getting late"time of dayclock time, time - a reading of a point in time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock"high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon - the middle of the daymealtime - the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eatenlate-night hour - the latter part of nightmidnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight"small hours - the hours just after midnightbedtime - the time you go to bedclosing time - the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the publicaurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup, morning - the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning"early-morning hour - an hour early in the morningsundown, sunset - the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizoncrepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, fall - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"none - a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrisehappy hour - the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced pricerush hour - the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from workzero hour - the time set for the start of an action or operationcanonical hour - (Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer
	3.	hour - a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
	4.	hour - distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"minutedistance - the property created by the space between two objects or points

hour

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adjectives horal, horary

Translations

小时时刻时间

hour

(ˈauə) noun (sometimes abbreviated to hr when written). 1. sixty minutes, the twenty-fourth part of a day. He spent an hour trying to start the car this morning; She'll be home in half an hour; a five-hour delay.小时2. the time at which a particular thing happens. when the hour for action arrives; He helped me in my hour of need; You can consult him during business hours. 时刻，时间 ˈhourly adjective, adverb (happening or done) every hour. Take his temperature hourly; hourly reports. 每小时一次（的） ˈhour-glass noun a device that measures time in hours by passing sand from one glass container through a narrow tube into a lower container. 沙漏hour hand the smaller of the two hands of a watch or clock, which shows the time in hours. 时针at all hours at irregular times, especially late at night. He comes home at all hours. 在任何时间，随时 for hours for a very long time. We waited for hours for the train. 很长一段时间，好几个钟头 on the hour at exactly one, two, three etc o'clock. Buses leave here for London on the hour until 10 o'clock in the evening. （在某一钟点）准点地，在整点时刻

hour

→ 小时zhCN

How much is it per hour? → 每小时多少钱？

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(a) quarter of (a given hour in time)
(one's) finest hour
(the) man/woman of the hour
a (unit of time) or two
a bad quarter of an hour
a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours
after hours
all hours
all hours (of the day and night)
amateur hour
at all hours
at all hours (of the day and night)
at an unearthly hour
at an unearthly/ungodly hour
at an ungodly hour
at the bottom of the hour
at the eleventh hour
at the top of the hour
banker’s hours
banker's hours
bankers' hours
by the day
by the hour
darkest hour is just before the dawn
eleventh hour
eleventh hour, at the
eleventh-hour decision
for hours on end
happy hour
improve the shining hour
in (one's) hour of need
in the space of (an amount of time)
in the space of a minute, an hour, a morning, etc.
in your hour of need
keep (some kind of) hours
keep banker's hours
keep late hours
keep... hours
kill (an amount of time)
kill time
kill time, a couple of hours, etc.
long hours
on the hour
on the hour/half-hour
one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after
put (some time) in on (something)
put in (some time) on (something)
put off the evil day
put off the evil hour
quarter past (a given hour in time)
rush hour
seize the hour/day
small hours
spend (some amount of time) in (some place)
stay up until (some hour)
the bottom of the hour
the darkest hour is just before the dawn
the early hours (of the night/morning)
the eleventh hour
the evil hour/day/moment
the evil moment/hour/day
the small hours
the small hours (of the night/morning)
the small/early hours
the top of the hour
the wee hours (of the night/morning)
the wee small hours (of the night/morning)
the witching hour
There aren't enough hours in the day
till all hours
till all hours (of the day and night)
till/until all hours
until all hours
until all hours (of the day and night)
wee hours
witching hour
work all the hours God sends
your finest hour
zero hour

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

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noun clock time

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noun a special and memorable period

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noun distance measured by the time taken to cover it

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