hour
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
How often you will meet it
Rank 308 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 66,521 times across 173,849 chapters — 0.032% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day also: hr, 60 minutes the job will take more than an hour
- clock time also: time of day the hour is getting late
- a special and memorable period it was their finest hour
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it also: minute we live an hour from the airportits just 10 minutes away
hour in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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An hour later the older man stood over the boy.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Make haste, my son, the hour is waxing late, The night is cold, methinks our sheep await.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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For an hour he pottered around the barn, and for a long while he sat on the porch under the stars.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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For half an hour I tried to pray as the beads of agony rolled down my forehead and bathed my face.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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Sharp to the hour Poppy arrived with her gift; she was a pretty little village girl, who adored the Misses Mainwaring.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 1