hour - English word #218

Translation

A length of time equal to sixty minutes.

Word origin

Comes from the Old French 'ore', from the Latin and Greek 'hora', meaning a time or season.

Gender

Pluralhours

film lasts .

Here 'hours' means lengths of time of sixty minutes each.

.

Here 'hour' means a period of sixty minutes from now.

half .

Here 'hour' is used with 'half' to mean thirty minutes.

An hour is a unit of time made up of sixty minutes. A day has twenty-four hours. Note that the "h" at the start is silent, so it sounds like "our".

time

The thing measured in minutes, hours, and years that keeps passing.

day

A period of 24 hours, or the time when it is light outside.

clock

A thing on a wall or table that shows you the time.

week

A period of seven days, usually counted from Monday to Sunday.

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