HOW TO PRONOUNCE
hour
/aʊɚ/
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“An hour later.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does hour mean?
noun
- A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
- A season, moment, or time.
- The time.
More meanings (4)
noun
- Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
- The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
- The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
- A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
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/aʊɚ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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“Bring in the whole world. But I refuse to allow that dog to lord it in my nursery for an hour longer.”
Beside the provisions lay the flute, whose notes had lately been called forth by the lonely watcher to beguile a tedious hour.
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So we waited for full moon, retired early, and spent an anxious hour or two in the unskilled manufacture of man-strong ropes.
Avonlea scholars often spent noon hour picking gum in Mr. Bell’s spruce grove over the hill and across his big pasture field.
About an hour or two ago it would a been a little different, but now it made me feel bad and disappointed.