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hour
Overview of noun hour
The noun hour has 4 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (93) hour, hr, 60 minutes -- (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour")
2. (22) hour, time of day -- (clock time; "the hour is getting late")
3. (1) hour -- (a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour")
4. hour, minute -- (distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hour
4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
=> time unit, unit of time
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
hour, time of day
=> clock time, time
=> reading, meter reading, indication
=> datum, data point
=> information
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
hour
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
hour, minute
=> distance
=> spacing, spatial arrangement
=> placement, arrangement
=> position, spatial relation
=> relation
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun hour
2 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
=> sidereal hour
=> man hour, person hour
Sense 2
hour, time of day
=> noon, twelve noon, high noon, midday, noonday, noontide
=> mealtime
=> late-night hour
=> midnight
=> small hours
=> bedtime
=> closing time
=> dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow
=> early-morning hour
=> sunset, sundown
=> twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
=> none
=> happy hour
=> rush hour
=> zero hour
=> canonical hour
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hour
4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
=> time unit, unit of time
Sense 2
hour, time of day
=> clock time, time
Sense 3
hour
=> time period, period of time, period
Sense 4
hour, minute
=> distance
Antonyms of noun hour
Member Holonyms of noun hour
Substance Holonyms of noun hour
Part Holonyms of noun hour
1 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
PART OF: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period,24hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
Member Meronyms of noun hour
Substance Meronyms of noun hour
Part Meronyms of noun hour
1 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
HAS PART: half-hour,30 minutes
HAS PART: quarter-hour,15 minutes
HAS PART: minute, min
HAS PART: quarter
Meronyms of noun hour
1 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
HAS PART: half-hour,30 minutes
HAS PART: quarter-hour,15 minutes
HAS PART: minute, min
HAS PART: quarter
Holonyms of noun hour
1 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
PART OF: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period,24hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
Attributes of noun hour
Derived Forms of noun hour
2 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
RELATED TO>(adj) hourly#1
=> hourly
RELATED TO>(adj) horary#1
=> horary
Sense 2
hour, time of day
RELATED TO>(adj) horary#1
=> horary
Domain of noun hour
Domain Terms of noun hour
Familiarity of noun hour
hour used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =4)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun hour
4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
> time unit, unit of time
=> day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period,24hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
=> night
=> mean time, mean solar time
=> terrestrial time, TT, terrestrial dynamical time, TDT, ephemeris time
=> month
=> sidereal day, day
=> bell, ship's bell
=> hour, hr,60 minutes
=> half-hour,30 minutes
=> quarter-hour,15 minutes
=> minute, min
=> quarter
=> second, sec, s
=> attosecond
=> femtosecond
=> picosecond
=> nanosecond
=> microsecond
=> millisecond, msec
Sense 2
hour, time of day
> clock time, time
=> spacecraft clock time, SCLK
=> prime time
=> hour, time of day
Sense 3
hour
> time period, period of time, period
=> trial period, test period
=> time frame
=> hours
=> downtime
=> uptime
=> work time
=> time off
=> bout
=> hospitalization
=> travel time
=> times
=> time
=> elapsed time
=> duration, continuance
=> week, calendar week
=> midweek
=> field day
=> life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
=> life
=> life
=> millennium, millenary
=> bimillennium, bimillenary
=> occupation
=> past
=> shelf life
=> puerperium
=> lactation
=> time of life
=> calendar day, civil day
=> festival
=> day, daytime, daylight
=> morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
=> night, nighttime, dark
=> night
=> night
=> night
=> eve
=> evening
=> week, hebdomad
=> fortnight, two weeks
=> weekend
=> Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
=> year
=> school, schooltime, school day
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> year
=> semester
=> bimester
=> Olympiad
=> lustrum
=> decade, decennary, decennium
=> century
=> quadrennium
=> quinquennium
=> half-century
=> quarter-century
=> quarter
=> phase of the moon
=> day
=> calendar month, month
=> mid-January
=> mid-February
=> mid-March
=> mid-April
=> mid-May
=> mid-June
=> mid-July
=> mid-August
=> mid-September
=> mid-October
=> mid-November
=> mid-December
=> time limit
=> term
=> trimester
=> hour
=> silly season
=> Golden Age
=> silver age
=> bronze age
HAS INSTANCE=> Bronze Age
=> iron age
HAS INSTANCE=> Iron Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Eolithic Age, Eolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Lower Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Middle Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Upper Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
=> great year, Platonic year
=> regulation time
=> overtime, extra time
=> season, time of year
=> dog days, canicule, canicular days
=> midwinter
=> season
=> season
=> long time, age, years
=> long run, long haul
=> drought, drouth
=> era, epoch
=> generation
=> prehistory, prehistoric culture
=> reign
=> run
=> youth, early days
=> dawn
=> evening
=> time
=> sleep, nap
=> lease, term of a contract
=> half life, half-life
=> tide, lunar time period
=> phase, stage
=> multistage
=> watch
=> peacetime
=> wartime
=> enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
=> honeymoon
=> indiction
=> prohibition, prohibition era
=> incubation period
=> rainy day
=> novitiate, noviciate
=> flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
=> running time
=> period, historic period, historical period
=> clotting time
=> air alert
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Schism
=> question time
=> real time
=> real time
=> study hall
=> usance
=> window
Sense 4
hour, minute
> distance
=> way
=> piece
=> mean distance
=> farness, remoteness, farawayness
=> nearness, closeness
=> wavelength
=> focal distance, focal length
=> hyperfocal distance
=> leap
=> span
=> wheelbase
=> interval, separation
=> remove
=> yardage
=> hour, minute
=> mileage, milage
=> elevation
=> hour angle
Meronyms of noun hour
4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
HAS PART: half-hour,30 minutes
HAS PART: quarter-hour,15 minutes
HAS PART: minute, min
HAS PART: second, sec, s
HAS PART: millisecond, msec
HAS PART: microsecond
HAS PART: nanosecond
HAS PART: picosecond
HAS PART: femtosecond
HAS PART: attosecond
HAS PART: quarter
Holonyms of noun hour
1 of 4 senses of hour
Sense 1
hour, hr,60 minutes
PART OF: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period,24hour interval, solar day, mean solar day
Grep of noun hour
24-hour interval
ampere-hour
canonical hour
credit hour
early-morning hour
eleventh hour
flower-of-an-hour
flowers-of-an-hour
half-hour
happy hour
horsepower-hour
hour
hour angle
hour circle
hour hand
hourglass
houri
hours
kilometers per hour
kilometres per hour
kilowatt hour
late-night hour
light hour
man hour
miles per hour
person hour
quarter-hour
rush hour
semester hour
sidereal hour
twenty-four hour period
watt-hour
zero hour
Grep of adj hour
hourglass-shaped
hourlong
hourly
Grep of adv hour
by the hour
hourly
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