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. Melissa Bragg:

   I know I ’m addicted to my phone, being a stay-at-home homeschooling mom, I really feel isolated from other adults much of the time. Social media probably accounts for 90 percent of my socialization. I’ve joined way too many Facebook groups and I am constantly just scrolling through them. It can get in the way of me taking care of my household responsibilities. Sometimes I ’ll be so engrossed in a conversation happening online that an hour or more goes by and I have n’t moved.

2. Allen Sanderson:

   If somebody quits, they can hire somebody else and teach them to make french fries in an hour.

3. Jennifer Lawrence:

   He flew in, pitched me, left, the whole thing was probably an hour and a half, and then I was like, ‘He’s hot.'.

4. Unknown:

   Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour ,True friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but they are always there.

5. John Heiser:

   With the rebels within 100 yards of his position, Cushing was shot and killed during this heroic stand. His actions made it possible for the Union Army to successfully repulse the Confederate assault. his battery was under fire for an hour and a half.