Word

hour, n.
(hours)
freq. cnt. 115

a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 118 freq. cnt.: 92 freq. cnt.: 26

60 minutes hour hr

sample sentences

"the job will take more than an hour"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

time unit, unit of time

part holonym

day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day

hyponym

sidereal hour man hour, person hour

part meronym

30 minutes, half-hour 15 minutes, quarter-hour minute, min quarter

clock time
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 22 freq. cnt.: 22

hour time of day

sample sentences

"the hour is getting late"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

time, clock time

hyponym

noon, midday, twelve noon, high noon, noonday, noontide mealtime late-night hour midnight small hours bedtime closing time dawn, dawning, daybreak, break of day, morning, aurora, first light, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow early-morning hour sundown, sunset dusk, nightfall, twilight, gloaming, gloam, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle none happy hour rush hour zero hour canonical hour

a special and memorable period
<noun.time> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

hour

sample sentences

"it was their finest hour"

semantic pointers

hypernym

period, period of time, time period

distance measured by the time taken to cover it
<noun.attribute>

hour minute

sample sentences

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

semantic pointers

hypernym