Meaning & use
hour
A period of time equal to sixty minutes, one twenty-fourth of a full day.
See it in a sentence
The meeting is scheduled to last one hour, starting at nine o'clock.
It takes about an hour to drive from the city to the coast.
A note on using this word
Hour begins with a silent 'h,' so it takes the article 'an' rather than 'a' (an hour, not a hour).
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