different between hour vs nighttime

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

Alternative forms

• night-time

Etymology

From Middle English nyght tyme, ny?ttyme, equivalent to night +? time. Compare Dutch nachttijd, German Nachtzeit, Danish nattetid, Swedish nattetid. Compare also Middle English ny?ter tyme (“nighttime”), from Old Norse náttartími, nætrtími (“nighttime”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?t?ta?m/, [?na??ta?m]

Noun

nighttime (countable and uncountable, plural nighttimes)

1. The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.

Synonyms

• nightertale, nighttide; see also Thesaurus:nighttime

Antonyms

• day, daytime; see also Thesaurus:daytime

Derived terms

• night-times

Translations

Adjective

nighttime (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
2. Happening during the night.

Synonyms

• (pertaining to nighttime): night
• (happening during the night): night, nocturnal

Antonyms

• (pertaining to nighttime): day, daytime
• (happening during the night): daytime, diurnal

Translations