Hour

Noun

 * 1) A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
 * I spent an hour at lunch.
 * 1) A season, moment, time or stound.
 * 2) * Edgar Allen Poe, "Alone":
 * From childhood's hour I have not been
 * As others were; I have not seen
 * As others saw; I could not bring
 * My passions from a common spring.
 * 1)  The time.
 * The hour grows late and I must go home.

Synonyms

 * stound

Abbreviations

 * Singular: h., hr
 * Plural: h., hrs

Derived terms

 * ampere-hour
 * canonical hour
 * credit hour
 * eleventh hour
 * F-Hour
 * flower-of-an-hour
 * H-hour
 * half-hour
 * happy hour
 * hour angle
 * hour circle
 * hourglass/hour glass/hour-glass
 * hourless


 * hour hand
 * hourly
 * kilowatt-hour
 * man-hour
 * off-hour
 * on the hour
 * person-hour
 * quarter-hour
 * rush hour
 * witching hour
 * zero hour

Adjectives for Hour
accustomed; additional; agonizing; all-glorious; amazing; appointed; arid; atoning; awful; baleful; bitter; black; bleak; blessed; blighted; blue-eyed; bounteous; brawl¬ing; breakfast; breathless; brief; bright; calm; captive; careful; cheerless; closing; cloudless; comfortless; coming; conditioned; confident; consecrated; countless (pi); cramped; critical; crucial; customary; darkened; darkling; dawning; definite; delicious; designated; desirable; disastrous; discouraged;  dolorous;   dread;   dreadful; dream-haunted; dreaming; dreary; drinking; dull; dusky; early; eerie; elected; ensuing; enthusiastic; eventful; evil; exciting; fair; famished; fatiguing; favored; fearful; fervent; feverous; naming; forbidden; forgetful; forlorn;   forsaken;   fragrant; fruitful; generous; gentle; giddy; gleeful; gloom-clad; glutted; gory; gradual; hallowed; happy; hateful; hazy; heavenly; heavy; heinous; heterogeneous; hushed; hustling; hypnotic; idle; illuminating; imperious; impossible; impressionable; impressive; inauspicious; incessant; industrious; inevitable; instant; interminable; jocund; jovial; joyful; jubilant; laborious; languorous; last¬ing; lazy; leisure; lingering; lonely; long; luckless; lyric; meet; melancholy; memorable; merciless; meridian; merry; midnight; moonlit; mortal; mourning; murderous; natal; new-Hedged; niggard; noteless; nuptial; old; optional; pallid; particular; parting; passing; peaceful; perilous; placid; pleasant; precious; precise; prefixed; prescribed; promised; rare; regretful; regulated; retributive; rosy-fingered; sacred; sauntering; secret; serene; serious; shadowed; shiny; short; sleepless; slow-paced; social; soft; solemn; somber; sorrowful; spent; splenetic; starless; stormy; strange; suffering; sunny; sunset; superincumbent; supreme; surviving; swift; tedious; thorny: thoughtful; thrilling; torturing; tranquil, transient; treacherous; trembling; tremulous; troublous; trysting; twilight; unbearable; unborn; unconscionable; unfortunate; unlucky; unnatural; unreturning; unseasonable; unsuspecting; untroubled; usual; valuable; vast; vehement; vesper; voluptuous; wakeful; wasted; weary; wedlock; weird; weeping; white-robed; wholesome; wild; wonted; working; wretched.

Verbs for Hour
appoint—; budget—s; consume—s; count —s; crowd—; devote—s to; employ—; fix —; fritter away—s; kill—s; laze away—s; note—; postpone—; read—of day; reckon —; regulate—s; set—; —approaches; — crawl by; — drag; —elapses; —s fly; —a lag; — ripen; —strikes; — wear on.

Thesaurus
abundant year, academic year, annum, bell, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fateful moment, fiscal year, fortnight, instant, interval, juncture, kairos, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, moment of truth, month, moon, period, point, pregnant moment, psychological moment, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, season, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, sun, term, the time, time, time lag, time of day, time signal, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday, while, year

Etymology
houre, oure from (h)oure from  houre, (h)ore from  hora: from  ὥρα: from. Akin to gear:. Displaced native stunde, stound "hour, moment, stound" (from  stund "hour, time, moment"),  ȝetid, tid "hour, time" (from  *ġetīd, compare  getīd "hour, time").

Translations

 * Abaza:
 * Abkhaz: асааҭ
 * Adyghe:
 * Albanian:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܫܥܬܐ (šāʕtā’)
 * Hebrew: שעתא (šāʕtā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Avar: сагӀат
 * Azeri:
 * Basque:, oren
 * Belarusian: гадзіна
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: eur, eureier, eurvezh
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 小時, 小时, 鐘頭, 钟头
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: घंटा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: hora
 * Irish: uair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 時, 時間
 * Khmer: ម៉ោង


 * Korean: 시 (時)
 * Kurdish: seet, 60 deqe
 * Lao:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban:
 * Lower Sorbian: ,
 * Macedonian:, саат
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: hore
 * Ojibwe: diba'igan
 * Old French:
 * Persian: ساعت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਘੰਟਾ (ghaṇṭā)
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: ura, oura
 * Russian: час
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сат, час
 * Roman: sat, čas
 * Slovak: hodina
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: oras
 * Tajik: соат
 * Taos: ùro’óna
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: గంట (gaMTa)
 * Thai: ชั่วโมง
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: година
 * Urdu: گھنٹا, گھنٹہ
 * Vietnamese: giờ, tiếng
 * Volapük: düp
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: שעה


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ժամ (žam)
 * Czech:
 * Galician: hora
 * German: ,
 * Latin:, hora


 * Lower Sorbian: ,
 * Macedonian: часот
 * Romansch: ura, oura
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: