hours

Meaning of hours

plural noun
  1. a period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes.
    an extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings
    rates of pay were low, starting at £3.20 an hour
    a two-hour operation
  2. a time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday.
    the clock in the sitting room struck the hour
  3. a fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc.
    the dinner hour
    licensing hours
    opening hours
  4. (in the Western (Latin) Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities.
    an organized life of prayer including the canonical hours
  5. 15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle).

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ure, via Latin from Greek hōra ‘season, hour’.

Information about hours

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of hours is: hour.
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Hyphenation of hours

hours

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • hours is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of hours

Horus, horus

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