hour Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
    hr; 60 minutes.
    • the job will take more than an hour
  2. noun clock time
    time of day.
    • the hour is getting late
  3. noun a special and memorable period
    • it was their finest hour
  4. noun distance measured by the time taken to cover it
    minute.
    • we live an hour from the airport
    • its just 10 minutes away

WordNet

Hour noun
Etymology
OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. , orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.
Definitions
  1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
  3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
    Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. John ii. 4.
    This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke xxii. 53.
  4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  5. A measure of distance traveled.
    Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. J. P. Peters.

Webster 1913