hour

English

/ˈaʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈaʊɚ/

noun
Definitions
  • A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
  • A season, moment, or time.
  • (poetic) The time.
  • (military) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
  • (Christianity) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
  • (chiefly) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English houre derived from houre, houre#Old_French derived from Old French houre, (h)ore derived from Latin hōra (hour, season, time) derived from Ancient Greek ὥρα (season, time, year, hour, whether of the year, any time period, or day, month, period, part of a sacrificial victim, fixed period of time, any limited time) derived from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (year, season, do, act vigorously, make).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*yeh₁-

Gloss

year, season, do, act vigorously, make

Concept
Semantic Field

Time

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

年

Emoji
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