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1. A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
   "the job will take more than an hour"
   - hr, 60 minutes
    
2. Clock time
   "the hour is getting late"
   - time of day
    
3. A special and memorable period
   "it was their finest hour"
    
4. Distance measured by the time taken to cover it
   "we live an hour from the airport"
   - minute

Sounds like: our

Derived forms: hours

See also: horary [archaic], hourly

Type of: clock time, distance, period, period of time, time, time period, time unit, unit of time

Part of: 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours

Encyclopedia: Hour