an hour

Definition von an hour im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: stound
What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound.
hour: A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day
I spent an hour at lunch.
hour: A season, moment, time or stound
My passions from a common spring.
hour: Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work. Teachers refused to run out of hours sports matches because they weren't being paid
hour: {n} the twenty-forth part of a day, time
hour: If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour
hour: If you do something after hours, you do it outside normal business hours or the time when you are usually at work. a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours see also after-hours
hour: a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour"
hour: (Greek and Latin, hora ) At the eleventh hour Just in time not to be too late; only just in time to obtain some benefit The allusion is to the parable of labourers hired for the vineyard (Matt xx ) My hour is not yet come The time of my death is not yet fully come The allusion is to the belief that the hour of our birth and death is appointed and fixed "When Jesus knew that His hour was come " - John xiii 1 In an evil hour Acting under an unfortunate impulse In astrology we have our lucky and unlucky hours In the small hours of the morning One, two, and three, after midnight To keep good hours To return home early every night; to go to bed bedtimes "Se retirer la nuit de bonne heure " In Latin, "Tempestive se domum recipere "
hour: A measure of distance traveled
hour: If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling. the darkest hour of my professional life
hour: You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates. the hours of darkness Phone us on this number during office hours
hour: sixty minutes, as in: It seemed like I waited an hour, but it was only twenty minutes
hour: Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers
hour: You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour. the hour of his execution = time
hour: If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight. Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning
hour: A 24th part of a day
hour: see eleventh hour see lunch hour see rush hour
hour: a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour
hour: measure used for medium amounts of time -- " his commute takes one hour and 51 minutes " (230)
hour: disapproval If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does. She didn't want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning
hour: The time
hour: A unit of time One hour equals 60 minutes, or 3 600 seconds
hour: a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour"
hour: An integer from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11 p m )
hour: {i} unit of time equal to 60 minutes; certain time of day
hour: 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
hour: A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on
hour: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
hour: clock time; "the hour is getting late"
hour: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" clock time; "the hour is getting late" a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour
hour: The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes
hour: If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it. I worked quite irregular hours
hour: n jam
hour: An hour is a period of sixty minutes. They waited for about two hours I only slept about half an hour that night. a twenty-four hour strike
hour: emphasis People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time. Getting there would take hours