different between hour vs horary

English

Alternative forms

• hower, houre, howre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin h?ra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ??ar (“year”). Doublet of hora.

Displaced native Middle English stunde, stound (“hour, moment, stound”) (from Old English stund (“hour, time, moment”)), Middle English ?etid, tid (“hour, time”) from Old English *?et?d, compare Old Saxon get?d (“hour, time”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ow??r, IPA^(key): /?a??(?)/
• (US, Canada) enPR: owr, IPA^(key): /?a??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Homophone: our (depending on accent)
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Noun

hour (plural hours)

1. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
2. A season, moment, or time.
   • Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.

3. (poetic) The time.

4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
6. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Synonyms

• (period of sixty minutes, a season or moment): stound (obsolete)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “hour”.

Synonyms

• Singular: h, hr
• Plural: h, hrs

Translations

Anagrams

• rohu

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hour

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

hour

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

Etymology 3

Determiner

hour

1. Alternative form of youre

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin h?r?rius, from h?ra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?????i/

Adjective

horary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an hour or hours.
2. Occurring every hour; hourly.
3. (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
4. (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 276:

     But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.

   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 295:

     This aspect of astrology impinged on medicine too, since an horary question could be a request for diagnosis, in which case the doctor might answer it by inspecting not just the arrangement of the heavens but also a sample of the patient's urine, bearing in mind when it was passed or when it was brought to him.

Translations

Noun

horary (plural horaries)

1. (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
2. A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
3. A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “horary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN