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English noun: hour | |||
| 1. | hour (time) a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day | ||
| Samples | The job will take more than an hour. | ||
| Synonyms | 60 minutes, hr | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | time unit, unit of time | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | man hour, person hour, sidereal hour | ||
| Part holonym | 15 minutes, 30 minutes, half-hour, min, minute, quarter, quarter-hour | ||
| Part meronym | 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | ||
| 2. | hour (time) clock time | ||
| Samples | The hour is getting late. | ||
| Synonyms | time of day | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | clock time, time | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aurora, bedtime, break of day, break of the day, canonical hour, closing time, cockcrow, crepuscle, crepuscule, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, dusk, early-morning hour, evenfall, fall, first light, gloam, gloaming, happy hour, high noon, late-night hour, mealtime, midday, midnight, morning, nightfall, none, noon, noonday, noontide, rush hour, small hours, sundown, sunrise, sunset, sunup, twelve noon, twilight, zero hour | ||
| 3. | hour (time) a special and memorable period | ||
| Samples | It was their finest hour. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 4. | hour (attribute) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | ||
| Samples | We live an hour from the airport. Its just 10 minutes away. | ||
| Synonyms | minute | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | distance | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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