Definition of Hour

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Definition of Hour

Hour

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?

Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.

Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.

A measure of distance traveled.

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Hour Quotations

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?
Thomas Jefferson

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Thomas Jefferson

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
Benjamin Franklin

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mohandas Gandhi

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy

Hour Translations

hour in Afrikaans is uur
hour in Danish is time
hour in Dutch is uur
hour in Finnish is tunti
hour in French is heure
hour in German is Stunde
hour in Italian is lezione
hour in Latin is hora
hour in Norwegian is time
hour in Portuguese is hora
hour in Spanish is hora
hour in Swedish is timma, tidpunkt

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