NOUN | time | hour, hr, 60 minutes | a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day |
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time | hour, time of day | clock time | |
time | hour | a special and memorable period | |
attribute | hour, minute | distance measured by the time taken to cover it |
Sounds | aw'er; aw'r | |
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Rhymes | bellflower ... willpower: 32 rhymes with awer... | |
Adenauer ... sour: 9 rhymes with awr... |
Meaning | A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day. | |
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Example | "the job will take more than an hour" | |
Synonyms | hr, 60 minutes | |
Part of | day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day | Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis |
Parts | half-hour, 30 minutes | A half of an hour |
minute, min | A unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | |
quarter | A unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour | |
quarter-hour, 15 minutes | A quarter of an hour | |
Narrower | man hour, person hour | A time unit used in industry for measuring work |
sidereal hour | 1/24 of a sidereal day | |
Broader | time unit, unit of time | A unit for measuring time periods |
Spanish | 60 minutos, h, hora | |
Catalan | 60 minuts, h, hora | |
Adjectives | horary | relating to the hours |
hourly | occurring every hour or payable by the hour |
Meaning | clock time. | |
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Example | "the hour is getting late" | |
Synonym | time of day | |
Narrower | bedtime | The time you go to bed |
canonical hour | (Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer | |
closing time | The regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public | |
dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow | The first light of day | |
early-morning hour | An hour early in the morning | |
happy hour | The time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price | |
late-night hour | The latter part of night | |
mealtime | The hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | |
midnight | 12 o'clock at night | |
none | A canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | |
noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide | The middle of the day | |
rush hour | The times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work | |
small hours | The hours just after midnight | |
sunset, sundown | The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | |
twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle | The time of day immediately following sunset | |
zero hour | The time set for the start of an action or operation | |
Broader | clock time, time | A reading of a point in time as given by a clock |
Spanish | hora del día, hora | |
Catalan | hora | |
Adjectives | horary | relating to the hours |
Meaning | A special and memorable period. | |
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Example | "it was their finest hour" | |
Broader | time period, period of time, period | An amount of time |
Spanish | hora, momento | |
Catalan | hora |
Meaning | distance measured by the time taken to cover it. | |
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Example | "we live an hour from the airport" | |
Synonym | minute | |
Broader | distance | The property created by the space between two objects or points |
Spanish | hora, minuto | |
Catalan | hora, minut |
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