Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
HOUR
hour, minute
(noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it; “we live an hour from the airport”; “its just 10 minutes away”
hour, hr, minutes
(noun) a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; “the job will take more than an hour”
hour, time of day
(noun) clock time; “the hour is getting late”
hour
(noun) a special and memorable period; “it was their finest hour”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
hour (plural hours)
A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
A season, moment, or time.
(poetic) The time.
(military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
(Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
(chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
Synonyms
• (period of sixty minutes, a season or moment): stound (obsolete)
Synonyms
• Singular: h, hr
• Plural: h, hrs
Anagrams
• rohu
Source: Wiktionary
Hour, n. Etym: [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.]
1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour At what hour shall we meet
3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. John ii. 4. This is your hour, and the power of darkness. Luke xxii. 53.
4. pl. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
5. A measure of distance traveled. Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. J. P. Peters. After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor.
– Canonical hours. See under Canonical.
– Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
– Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15Âş, or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe.
– Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece.
– Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial.
– Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. Locke.
– Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
– Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
– The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
– To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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