hours

¹

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc
2. one's times of rising and going to bed (esp in the phrases keep regular, irregular, or late hours )
3. an indefinite period of time
4. Also called (in the Roman Catholic Church)canonical hours
   1. the seven times of the day laid down for the recitation of the prayers of the divine office
   2. the prayers recited at these times
5. the small hours
   the small hours the hours just after midnight
6. till all hours
   till all hours until very late

Hours

²

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. See Horae
   another word for the Horae

Example Sentences

Is it sort of evidence of the Gladwellian 10,000 hours theory?

From The Daily Beast

Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.

From The Daily Beast

He flew with Captain Irianto, 53, who had 20,000 hours experience, more than 6,000 hours on the A320.

From The Daily Beast

The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

From The Daily Beast

In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.

From The Daily Beast

It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

From Project Gutenberg

The place was well defended by earthworks and natural parapets, and for several hours the issue of the contest was doubtful.

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It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.

From Project Gutenberg

The product is then multiplied by the number of cubic centimeters voided in twenty-four hours and divided by 1000.

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To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

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