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Synonyms for hour
ər, ˈaʊ ərhour

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Wiktionary2.3 / 3 votes

  1. hournoun

    Synonyms:
    stound

  2. hournoun

    A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

    I spent an hour at lunch.

    Synonyms:
    stound

  3. hournoun

    A season, moment, time or stound.

    Synonyms:
    stound

  4. hournoun

    The time.

    The hour grows late and I must go home.

    Synonyms:
    stound

  5. hournoun

    Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.

    Synonyms:
    stound

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. hour, hr, 60 minutesnoun

    a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

    "the job will take more than an hour"

    Synonyms:
    time of day, minute, hr

  2. hour, time of daynoun

    clock time

    "the hour is getting late"

    Synonyms:
    time of day, minute, hr

  3. hournoun

    a special and memorable period

    "it was their finest hour"

    Synonyms:
    time of day, minute, hr

  4. hour, minutenoun

    distance measured by the time taken to cover it

    "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"

    Synonyms:
    minute, bit, instant, min, minute of arc, moment, mo, second, arcminute, time of day, hr

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 1 vote

  1. hournoun

    Synonyms:
    sixty minutes, twenty-fourth part of a day

PPDB, the paraphrase database1.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "hour":

    hours, time, p.m., h, a.m., moment, half-hour, hora, hourly, uri, clock, globalizing

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#2929clock
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How to use hour in a sentence?

  1. Jeffrey Anshel:

    Your eyes should clear in about an hour.

  2. Cathie Wood:

    Thanks to web-enabled services like Zipcar, Uber and Lyft, household vehicles are beginning to feel like the stranded assets they are : high in cost but utilized on average only 4 percent of the time in a 24-hour day.

  3. John Mackey:

    We're happy to bring our customers the convenience of free two-hour delivery through Prime Now and access to thousands of natural and organic groceries and locally sourced favorites, together, we have already lowered prices on many items, and this offering makes Prime customers’ lives even easier.

  4. Albert Einstein:

    When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

  5. Thomas Karako:

    This is a game of minutes, but the initial detection of a launch would be really in terms of seconds, keep in mind the entire flight time from North Korea to the United States is well under any hour [and] the authority is given in advance. It's predesignated.


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