hour

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#1·8h ago

(time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).

I spent an hour at lunch.

Origin: From , hour, oure, from , from , from , from . Akin to . . Compare horary. Partly displaced native , whence Modern English tide. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·8h ago

A season, moment, or time.

There's a bus at 20 past the hour.

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#3·8h ago

(poetic) The time.

We still have a couple hours left to do in the yard.

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