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Word entry · 4 letters

hour

Best crossword clue

"Sixty-minute span"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /aʊə/Part of speech nounSorted horuStarts with HEnds with R3 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Period of sixty minutes

Word origin

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ġēar (“year”). Doublet of hora and year. Compare horary.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonym: microcentury (humorous approximation)
  • I spent an hour at lunch.
  • There's a bus at 20 past the hour.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues

01Sixty-minute span4 letters
02Clock span4 letters
03Sixty minutes4 letters

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