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

But if you live in a small city where people aren’t regular bus riders, will people be milling about all hours of the day waiting for the bus?

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Dan Spoor, a 69-year-old retired aerospace executive, used to spend hours researching companies in which he’s interested in investing and inputting their financial metrics into spreadsheets.

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“Middle school students that regularly completed two hours of homework did not perform better in school than those that averaged only one hour,” it concluded in a 2020 review of research.

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This summer, Fish and Wildlife staff spent 18,000 hours engaging in 95 hazing operations across 114 days at 18 ranches.

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But they had less than 24 hours to wait for Game 2, which means they’re back into the comfortable — if exhausting — routine that got them to the World Series in the first place.

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