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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, 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”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year.
Partly displaced native Old English tīd (“time, hour”), whence Modern English tide.
Pronunciation
Noun
hour (plural hours)
- A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
I spent an hour at lunch.
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.
- A season, moment, or time.
c. 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):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.
- (poetic) The time.
The hour grows late and I must go home.
- (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
2000, T. C. G. James, edited by Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain, →ISBN:By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
- (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
- (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
This place is an hour away from where I live.
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Abbreviations
Synonyms
- (period of sixty minutes, a season or moment): stound (obsolete); microcentury (humorous approximation)
Derived terms
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Descendants
Translations
time period of sixty minutes
- Abaza: сахӏат (saḥat)
- Abkhaz: асааҭ (asaat)
- Adyghe: сыхьат (səḥat)
- Afrikaans: uur (af)
- Akan: dɔnhwerew
- Albanian: orë (sq) f
- Aleut: chasix̂
- Amharic: ሰአት (säʾät), ሰዓት (säʿat)
- Arabic: سَاعَة (ar) f (sāʕa)
- Egyptian Arabic: ساعة f (sāʕa)
- Gulf Arabic: سَاعَة (saʕə)
- Moroccan Arabic: ساعة f (sāʕa)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܲܥܬܵܐ f (šāʿta), ܣܵܥܲܬ f (saʿāt)
- Hebrew: שעתא f (šāʕtā’)
- Syriac: ܫܥܬܐ f (šāʕtā’)
- Argobba: ሰዐ (sa'a)
- Armenian: ժամ (hy) (žam)
- Aromanian: oárã f
- Assamese: ঘন্টা (ghonta)
- Asturian: hora (ast) f
- Avar: сагӏат (saʻat)
- Azerbaijani: saat (az)
- Bashkir: сәғәт (səğət)
- Basque: ordu, oren (eu)
- Belarusian: гадзі́на f (hadzína)
- Bengali: ঘন্টা (bn) (ghonṭa)
- Breton: eur (br) f, eureier (br), eurvezh (br) f
- Bulgarian: час (bg) m (čas)
- Burmese: နာရီ (my) (nari)
- Buryat: час (čas), саг (sag)
- Carpathian Rusyn: годи́на f (hodýna)
- Catalan: hora (ca) f
- Chechen: сахьт (saḥʳt)
- Cherokee: ᏑᏟᎶᏛ (sutlilodv)
- Chichewa: ola
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 鐘頭/钟头 (yue) (zung1 tau4), 鐘/钟 (zung1)
- Dungan: саат (saat), сахаты (sahatɨ), сышын (sɨšɨn)
- Eastern Min: 點鐘/点钟 (dēng-cṳ̆ng), 小時/小时 (siēu-sì)
- Hakka: 點鐘/点钟 (tiám-chûng)
- Hokkien: 點鐘/点钟 (zh-min-nan) (tiám-cheng)
- Mandarin: 小時/小时 (zh) (xiǎoshí), (informal) 鐘頭/钟头 (zh) (zhōngtóu)
- Wu: 鐘頭/钟头 (1tson-deu)
- Chuvash: сехет (seh̬et)
- Corsican: ora (co) f
- Crimean Tatar: saat
- Czech: hodina (cs) f
- Dalmatian: aura
- Danish: time (da) c
- Dhivehi: ގަޑި (gaḍi)
- Dutch: uur (nl) n, stonde (nl) f
- Elfdalian: taime m
- Esperanto: horo (eo)
- Estonian: tund (et)
- Ewe: gaƒoƒo
- Faroese: tími m
- Fijian: aua (fj)
- Finnish: tunti (fi)
- French: heure (fr) f
- Old French: eure f
- Friulian: ore f
- Galician: hora (gl) f
- Ge'ez: ሰዐት (säʿät)
- Georgian: საათი (saati)
- German: Stunde (de) f
- Alemannic German: Schtund f
- Gothic: 𐍈𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌰 f (ƕeila)
- Greek: ώρα (el) f (óra)
- Ancient: ὥρα f (hṓra)
- Greenlandic: akunneq
- Gujarati: ઘંટા (ghaṇṭā), કલાક (kalāk)
- Hausa: sa'a, awa
- Hebrew: שָׁעָה (he) f (sha'á)
- Hindi: घंटा (hi) m (ghaṇṭā)
- Hungarian: óra (hu)
- Icelandic: klukkustund (is), klukkutími (is), tími (is) m (colloquial)
- Ido: horo (io)
- Indonesian: jam (id)
- Ingush: сахьат (saḥʳat)
- Interlingua: hora (ia)
- Irish: uair (ga) f
- Old Irish: úar f
- Istriot: ura f
- Italian: ora (it) f
- Japanese: 時 (ja) (じ, ji), 時間 (ja) (じかん, jikan)
- Javanese: jam (jv)
- Kannada: ಗಂಟೆ (kn) (gaṇṭe), ತಾಸು (kn) (tāsu)
- Kashubian: gòdzëna f
- Kazakh: сағат (kk) (sağat)
- Khmer: ម៉ោង (km) (maong)
- Korean: 시(時) (ko) (si), 시간(時間) (ko) (sigan)
- Kumyk: сагьат (sahat)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: seet (ku)
- Kyrgyz: саат (ky) (saat)
- Ladin: ora f, ëura f
- Lao: ຊົ່ວໂມງ (lo) (sūa mōng)
- Latin: hōra (la) f
- Latvian: stunda f
- Lezgi: сят (sät)
- Lithuanian: valanda (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Stonn (lb) f
- Macedonian: час (mk) m (čas), саат m (saat)
- Malagasy: ora (mg)
- Malay: jam (ms)
- Malayalam: മണിക്കൂർ (ml) (maṇikkūṟ)
- Maltese: siegħa f
- Manx: oor
- Maori: hāora
- Marathi: तास (mr) (tās)
- Mehri: سات
- Mirandese: hora
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цаг (mn) (cag)
- Mongolian: ᠴᠠᠭ (čag)
- Navajo: ahééʼílkid, óola
- Nepali: घण्टा (ne) (ghaṇṭā)
- Ngazidja Comorian: saya class 9/10
- Norman: heuthe f
- Northern Sami: tiibmu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: time (no) m
- Nynorsk: time m
- Occitan: ora (oc) f
- Odia: ଘଣ୍ଟା (or) (ghôṇṭa)
- Ojibwe: diba'igan
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: година f (godina), часъ m (časŭ)
- Old East Slavic: часъ m (časŭ), година f (godina)
- Oromo: saatii
- Ossetian: сахат (saxat)
- Ottoman Turkish: ساعت (saʾat)
- Papiamentu: ora
- Pashto: ساعت (ps) m (sā'at)
- Persian: ساعَت (fa) (sâ'at), تَسو (fa) (tasu)
- Polish: godzina (pl) f,
- Portuguese: hora (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਘੰਟਾ (ghaṇṭā)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: oră (ro) f, ceas (ro) n
- Romansch: ura f, oura f
- Russian: час (ru) m (čas)
- Sanskrit: घण्टा (sa) f (ghaṇṭā)
- Scots: oor
- Scottish Gaelic: uair f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: са̑т m, ча̏с m (Bosnia, Serbia)
- Roman: sȃt (sh) m, čȁs (sh) m (Bosnia, Serbia)
- Sicilian: ura (scn) f
- Sidamo: saate
- Sinhalese: පැය (si) (pæya)
- Slovak: hodina (sk) f
- Slovene: úra (sl) f
- Somali: saacad (so) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: góźina f, štunda f
- Upper Sorbian: hodźina f
- Southern Altai: саат (saat)
- Spanish: hora (es) f
- Swahili: saa (sw)
- Swedish: timme (sv) c
- Tagalog: oras (tl)
- Tajik: соат (tg) (soat)
- Tamil: மணி (ta) (maṇi), மணித்தியாலம் (ta) (maṇittiyālam)
- Taos: ùroʼóna
- Tatar: сәгать (tt) (sägat’)
- Telugu: గంట (te) (gaṇṭa)
- Tetum: tuku
- Thai: ชั่วโมง (th) (chûua-moong)
- Tibetan: ཆུ་ཚོད (chu tshod)
- Tigrinya: ሰዓት (säʿat)
- Tok Pisin: aua
- Tumbuka: ola
- Turkish: saat (tr), sögen
- Turkmen: sagat
- Tuvan: шак (şak)
- Udi: сагьад (sahad)
- Ukrainian: годи́на (uk) f (hodýna)
- Urdu: گَھنْٹا m (ghanṭā), گَھنْٹَہ m (ghanṭa), ساعَت f (sā'at)
- Uyghur: سائەت (ug) (sa'et)
- Uzbek: soat (uz)
- Venetian: óra f
- Vietnamese: giờ (vi), tiếng (vi)
- Volapük: düp (vo)
- Walloon: eure (wa) f
- Welsh: awr (cy) f
- West Frisian: oere (fy) c
- Yagnobi: соат (soat)
- Yakut: чаас (caas)
- Yiddish: שעה (yi) f (sho), שטונדע f (shtunde)
- Yup'ik: cass'aq
- Zhuang: cungdaeuz
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unit to denote the hour, such as military usage in English
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 點/点 (dim2), (whole hours only) 點鐘/点钟 (dim2 zung1), (formal) 時/时 (si4)
- Dungan: саат (saat), сахаты (sahatɨ), сышын (sɨšɨn)
- Eastern Min: 點鐘/点钟 (dēng-cṳ̆ng), 時/时 (sì)
- Hakka: 點鐘/点钟 (tiám-chûng)
- Hokkien: 點鐘/点钟 (zh-min-nan) (tiám-cheng)
- Mandarin: (formal) 時/时 (zh) (shí), 點/点 (zh) (diǎn), (whole hours only) 點鐘/点钟 (zh) (diǎn zhōng)
- Wu: 點/点 (tie), (formal) 時/时 (zy) , (whole hours only) 點鐘/点钟 (tie tzon)
- French: heures (fr) f
- Japanese: 時 (ja) (じ, ji)
- Korean: 시(時) (ko) (si)
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Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hour
- Alternative form of houre
Etymology 2
Determiner
hour
- Alternative form of oure
Etymology 3
Determiner
hour
- Alternative form of your