Hour definition
Hour is a noun meaning "a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day." It has 4 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Hour as a noun
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
"the job will take more than an hour"
Same sense: hr
clock time
"the hour is getting late"
Same sense: time of day
a special and memorable period
"it was their finest hour"
distance measured by the time taken to cover it
"we live an hour from the airport"
Same sense: minute
Synonyms and antonyms
- hr
- time of day
- minute
How to say hour
Hour has 2 syllables and rhymes with our. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with hour
- our
- power
- tower
- shower
- flower
- flour
- sour
- empower
- horsepower
- manpower
- sunflower
- firepower
HOUR in word games
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 7
- Anagrams
- 0
Is HOUR a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check HOUR in the word checker, or unscramble HOUR to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.