hour
IPA: ˈaʊɝ
noun
- A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
- A season, moment, or time.
- (poetic) The time.
- (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
- (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.
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Examples of "hour" in Sentences
- The plane departed an hour ago.
- Sloth sleeps more than 10 hours a day.
- The paitient was required to ambulate for an hour a day.
- Simultaneous doesn't mean the same day and the same hour.
- The derision on the thread was made more than 24 hours ago.
- People enjoy working in the farm in the wee hours of a day.
- Activity is scattered randomly over the 24 hours of the day.
- The cooking starts in the early hours of the main feast day.
- He finally returned to the house on the wee hours of Day 108.
- I saw a luminescent jellyfish film made by the National Geographics hours ago.
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