[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hour/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [H](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/h/) / hour # hour noun (hour, hours; casual: hrs, hr) «hour» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. An hour is a length of time; it has sixty minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#m1) 2. An hour can mean a time of day: «at this hour». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#m2) 3. Hours can mean the time when something is open or when someone works: «school hours». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#m3) 4. (casual) «Hours» can mean a long time, not counted: «I waited for hours!»; «hrs» and «hr» are short forms in texts and timetables. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#m4) 5. (casual) «The small hours» are the hours after midnight; «on the hour» means at 1:00, 2:00 and so on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#m5) 6. (formal) Exams and notices say «per hour», «hourly», «a duration of», «hours of operation» and «elapsed time». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#m6) ### In the lessons sixty minutes; a unit of time: N hours = N × 60 minutes; a day has 24 hours; speed is often given per hour; phrases: «an hour», «half an hour», «hours and hours», «rush hour», «opening hours», «per hour», «on the hour», «after hours»; in casual talk «took hours», «back in an hr», «like an hour ago»; in rough talk «I've been waiting a bloody hour»; in the exam voice «the elapsed duration in hours», «at a uniform rate of 60 kilometres per hour», «hours of operation» ### Examples - How many minutes are in 3 hours? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x1) - Max sleeps 9 hours each night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x2) - An hour has 60 minutes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x3) - A day has 24 hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x4) - The car drove at 60 kilometres per hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x5) - The roads are busy at rush hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x6) - We waited for half an hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x7) - The bus comes every hour, on the hour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x8) - back in an hr, chicken's in the oven [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x9) - I've been waiting a bloody hour for this bus! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x10) - A vehicle proceeds at a uniform rate of 60 kilometres per hour for a duration of 3 hours. Compute the distance travelled. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x11) - The library's hours are 9 to 5. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x12) - He waited one hour, two hours. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/#x13) ### Note An hour is 60 minutes. A day is 24 hours. N hours = N × 60 minutes. Hours are added and subtracted like counts. «for hours» in talk means a long time, not a number. «hourly» means once every hour. Grammar: «an hour» (the h is silent). Trap: «hour» and «our» sound the same. ## In Jewish tradition Interpretation: The Sefer Yetzirah takes the seven days with their hours as parts of the creation, with the seventh day, Shabbat, as the most beloved. In the primary lessons: sixty minutes; a unit of time: N hours = N × 60 minutes; a day has 24 hours; speed is often given per hour; phrases: «an hour», «half an hour», «hours and hours», «rush hour», «opening hours», «per hour», «on the hour», «after hours»; in casual talk «took hours», «back in an hr», «like an hour ago»; in rough talk «I've been waiting a bloody hour»; in the exam voice «the elapsed duration in hours», «at a uniform rate of 60 kilometres per hour», «hours of operation» ### Examples - With them He carved the Seven Firmaments and the Seven Earths and the Seven Hours; for this reason, He loved the Seventh Day more than any object under the heavens. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hour/#x1) - and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.' (Writings DAN.3.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hour/#x2) - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the palm of the hand that wrote. (Writings DAN.5.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hour/#x3) ### Note An hour is 60 minutes. A day is 24 hours. N hours = N × 60 minutes. Hours are added and subtracted like counts. «for hours» in talk means a long time, not a number. «hourly» means once every hour. Grammar: «an hour» (the h is silent). Trap: «hour» and «our» sound the same. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «hour» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hour/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«hour» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hour.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «hour» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/hour/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«hour» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/hour.html) on Mova free.