Synonyms for hour
aʊər, ˈaʊ ərhour

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Distance
   • Time Period

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. hournoun

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 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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How to use hour in a sentence?

1. Lakshheish M Patel:

   The stock market will further fall suddenly within an hour or so today

2. Stephen Ambrose:

   During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

3. Kevin Madden:

   You really don't learn how little these campaigns matter until you stop working on them, what were those 18-hour days for ?

4. Kahlil Gibran:

   Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

5. Le Maire:

   This is the moment of truth for the Franco-German relationship, the hour of reckoning for the future of the euro zone, either in the next few hours the president and the chancellor reach an agreement and accomplish a significant step in strengthening the euro zone. Or they are unable to and we will return, and I don't hesitate to say so, to turbulent times for the euro zone and for the European Union more widely.