1. hour

noun. ['ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊr'] a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.

Rhymes with Hour

• dessauer
• scour
• n'dour
• krauer
• flour
• blauer
• sour
• lour
• jour
• dower
• dour
• bour

How do you pronounce hour?

Pronounce hour as aʊər.

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Sentences with hour

1. Noun, singular or mass
Allow the pretreatment to penetrate the stain for at least one hour.

Quotes about hour

1. The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
- Walter Scott

2. The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.
- Omar Khayyam

3. When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

2. horsepower-hour

noun. a unit of work equal to the work done by one horsepower in one hour.

3. quarter-hour

noun. a quarter of an hour.

4. ampere-hour

noun. a unit of charge equal to 3600 coulombs.

5. half-hour

noun. ['ˈhæˌfaʊɝ'] a half of an hour.

6. watt-hour

noun. a unit of energy equal to the power of one watt operating for one hour.

7. flower-of-an-hour

noun. annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America.

8. hour

noun. ['ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊr'] clock time.

9. hour

noun. ['ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊr'] a special and memorable period.

10. hour

noun. ['ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊr'] distance measured by the time taken to cover it.