hour

Енглески

Алтернативни облици

Етимологија

Од Middle English houre, hour, oure, од Anglo-Norman houre, од Old French houre, (h)ore, од Латински hōra (hour), од Антички Грчки ὥρα (hṓra, any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day), од Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (year, season). Akin to Old English ġēar (year). Дублети of hora and year.

Displaced native Middle English stunde, stound (hour, moment, stound) (од Old English stund (hour, time, moment)), Middle English ȝetid, tid (hour, time) од Old English *ġetīd, compare Old Saxon getīd (hour, time).

Pronunciation

Noun

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hour (plural hours)

  1. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
    I spent an hour at lunch.
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  2. A season, moment, or time.
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      Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.
  3. (poetic) The time.
    The hour grows late and I must go home.
  4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
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  5. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
  6. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
    This place is an hour away from where I live.

Synonyms

  • (period of sixty minutes, a season or moment): stound (obsolete); microcentury (humorous approximation)

Derived terms

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Synonyms

Descendants

  • Ток Писин: aua
  • Hausa: awa

Translations

Anagrams

  • rohu (alphagram horu)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hour

  1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

hour

  1. Alternative form of oure

Etymology 3

Determiner

hour

  1. Alternative form of your