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 hours just after midnight

6. until very late

Hours

²

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. another word for the Horae

Example Sentences

Earlier this month, the British Transport Police said it would not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle had been left for more than two hours.

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He’s a guy with nothing: no money, no prospects, no future other than more soul-draining hours of scanning boxes at a warehouse where Michelle’s headshot looms on the break room wall.

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By the time he was taken off deep into the second half, his goalscoring record at Rangers, Everton and Sporting stood at three goals in more than 25 hours of football.

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This was the second American Humbert, 27, has knocked out in Basel following his first round defeat of Sebastian Korda 24 hours earlier.

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The latest flight came about a week after US-based B-52 bombers circled off Venezuela's coast for several hours.

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