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:
   hour, time of day, minute, hr

2. hour, time of daynoun

   clock time

   "the hour is getting late"

   Synonyms:
   hour, 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, hour, 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. Mr Garbutt:

   It took about an hour for the snake catcher to coax it out. The snake was trying to bite the snake hook. The guy ended up catching it with his hand and just chucked it in a bag.

2. Paul Klee:

   Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

3. Paul Fowler:

   Usually, in about an hour after we take an X-ray we give these results directly to the doctor, with the digital X-rays, we are using probably less exposure than you would at the hospital.

4. Stetson Bennett:

   Apparently a lot of old people still use them. I used to spend an hour on my phone every day, doing what? Nothing, nothing that was going to help me remember what I just did. And I’ve thought about this before, I’ve thought about it for years. I was like, I’ve got all this stuff to do, all this important stuff. Let’s try not to let anything get in the way of that focus and go get a flip phone.

5. Clive Lewis:

   Over the last 50 years corporate interests have changed stadiums more than anything else. Years ago, stadiums were just bare concrete and no seats, just bleachers, today, it's a lot more about the corporate experience -- the internal lounge, corporate boxes, restaurants. Which means that people are coming to the venue an hour or two before the event and not leaving for an hour or two afterwards.