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1. hour
noun. ['ˈaʊɝ, ˈaʊr'] a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day.
Synonyms
Etymology
- houre (Middle English (1100-1500))
- houre (Anglo-Norman)
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.
US - How to pronounce hour in American English
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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.
Synonyms
3. quarter-hour
Synonyms
Antonyms
5. half-hour
noun. ['ˈhæˌfaʊɝ'] a half of an hour.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- half- (English)
- hour (English)
- houre (Middle English (1100-1500))
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.
Synonyms
- twilight
- crepuscule
- dawn
- first light
- happy hour
- noon
- high noon
- closing time
- late-night hour
- dayspring
- morning
- sunrise
- noontide
- cockcrow
- dusk
- early-morning hour
- canonical hour
- gloaming
- time of day
- dawning
- time
- mealtime
- sunset
- zero hour
- daybreak
- midday
- nightfall
- evenfall
- small hours
- none
- twelve noon
- fall
- aurora
- bedtime
- break of day
- sundown
- gloam
- noonday
- midnight
- sunup
- crepuscle
- rush hour
- break of the day
Etymology
- houre (Middle English (1100-1500))
- houre (Anglo-Norman)