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. Especially Democrats:

   People work ! Especially Democrats work all hours of the day. It really is eliminating a poorer population, typically of color, that can't attend the caucus because they're at work or recovering from a 12 hour shift.

2. Austin Kim:

   It's at the choke point that you really suffer, you will not easily get onto that bridge in rush hour.

3. Jeff Chapin:

   I start by running with my dog -- around 6:30 or 7 in the morning, Chapin says. I try best not to check my phone or email until I at least do that and have breakfast. real life rarely allows us to get a full eight hours of sleep or an entire hour to run with the dog in the morning.

4. Bill Simpson:

   More than likely, we're probably going to go to a blizzard warning in eastern Massachusetts and particularly Cape Cod where they could see winds of 70 miles per hour (113 kph).

5. Michael Strain:

   All of society should pitch in, if you only do it through $15 an hour, then its only McDonalds and Wal-Mart contributing.