hours

/ˈaʊə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈaʊə/

hours

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> hours

Myanmar meaning

(n[pl]) နာရီများ

Full entry

hour /'aƱǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C] မိနစ်ခြောက်ဆယ်။ (တစ်) နာရီ။ The interview lasted half an hour. ❍ a three-hour exam paper ❍ an hour-long speech ❍ an hour's delay ❍ My attorney charges $ 200 an hour. ❍ He was driving at about 50 miles an/per hour. ❍ Paris is six hours ahead of New York. See also THE SMALL HOURS
၂။ [C usu sing ] (နေ့လယ်စာစား၊ လူကျ) ချိန်။ She took a long lunch hour. See also RUSH HOUR
၃။ [C] … နာရီ ခရီး။ London's only two hours away.
၄။ hours [pl] (အလုပ်ဖွင့်) ချိန်။ hours of business ❍ opening hours ❍ Office hours are from 9 am to 5 pm. ❍ Doctors work long hours.
၅။ [C] (သည်) အချိန်။ Who can be ringing us at this hour? See also ZERO-HOUR
၆။ hours [pl] (fml ) (နာရီကို ကိန်းနှစ်နေရာဖြင့် ၀၀ မှ ၂၄ ထိ လည်းကောင်း၊ မိနစ်ကိုလည်း ယင်းသို့ပင် ၀၀ မှ ၆၀ ထိ လည်းကောင်း သတ်မှတ်တွက်ချက်သည့် စနစ်ဖြင့်) ထိုးနာရီ။ It's eighteen hundred hours (ie 6 pm). ❍ It's twenty-one thirty hours (ie 9:30 pm).
၇။ [C usu sing] (fml) အခိုက်အတံ့။ အချိန်။ the country's finest hour ❍ She helped me in my hour of need.
၈။ hours [pl] (infml ) အကြာကြီး။ She spent hours preparing the meal. ❍ We waited for hours.
❏ after hours [IDM ] ပုံမှန်အလုပ်ချိန်နောက်ပိုင်း။ stay behind after hours to refill the shelves.
❏ at/till all hours [IDM ] အချိန်မဟုတ်အခါမဟုတ်။ အချိန်မတော်။ She stays out till all hours (ie very late). ❍ He telephones me at all hours (of the day and night).
❏ at the eleventh hour [IDM ] (esp Brit ) အချိန် နီးခါမှ။ အချိန်ကပ်ပြီး။ The president's visit was called off at the eleventh hour.
❏ hour-hand n လက်တံတို။ နာရီလက်တံ။
❏ hourly /'aƱǝli/ adv တစ်နာရီတစ်ခါ။ Forecasts are updated hourly.
adj
၁။ တစ်နာရီတစ်ခါ။ တစ်နာရီခြား။ an hourly bus service ❍ Buses leave at hourly intervals.
၂။ (လုပ်ချိန်) နာရီပေါ်မူတည်၍။ be paid on an hourly basis ❍ an hourly rate of $ 30.
❏ keep late, early, regular, etc hours [IDM ] အမြဲ စောစော/နောက်ကျ၍ ထသည်၊ အလုပ်ဆင်းသည်။
❏ on the hour [IDM ] … နာရီ တိတိတွင်။ ထိုးနာရီ တိုင်း။ The bus leaves every hour on the hour.
❏ out of hours [IDM ] အလုပ်ချိန် အပတွင်။

More examples

[every hour] : She checked on the children every hour.
[an hour ago] : He left about an hour ago.
[an hour of something] : After an hour of arguing, he agreed.
[an hour’s sleep/exercise/practice etc] : Why don’t you get an hour’s sleep?
[for an hour] : I’ve been waiting for over an hour.
[take an hour to do something] : This dish takes about an hour to cook.
[it takes an hour to do something] : It takes nearly an hour to get there by bus.
[in an hour/an hour’s time] : I can be there in an hour.
[an hour along/past something] : An hour along the beach road are some shops.
[an hour away (from something)] : Brighton is only an hour away from here.
I’m hungry and it’s hours until dinner.
[for hours (on end)] : I lay awake for hours thinking about John.
My job is very flexible – I can fit my hours around my children.
[long hours] : She’s putting in long hours at the library.
[school/working hours] : Courses that take place outside school hours
You can call me at any hour of the day or night.
What are you doing out of bed at this hour (=so early or late)?
[the hours of daylight/darkness] : They usually hunt during the hours of darkness.
[at all hours] : You get cars coming down here at all hours.
[someone’s/something’s finest hour] : His finest hour came in 1982 when his film Gandhi won eight Oscars.
[someone’s/something’s darkest hour] : We have lived through our country’s darkest hour.
[in someone’s hour of need] : No one had helped him in his hour of need.
[on the hour] : Trains for Edinburgh leave every hour on the hour.
[past the hour] : The bus stops here at six minutes past the hour.

Synonyms

60 minutes, age, allotment, befalling, bit, bout, break, breathing, century, chance, chronology, clock, connection, contingency, continuance, convenience, course, crack, cut, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, event, excuse, extent, fair shake, fighting chance, fitness, flash, fling, fortuity, freedom, future, generation, go, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, infinity, instance, instant, interval, iron in the fire, jiff, jiffy, juncture, lastingness, leisure, liberty, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, minute, moment, month, no time, nothing flat, o'clock, occasion, one's move, one's own sweet time, one's say, one's turn, opening, opportunity, pace, pass, past, period, place, point, point in time, prayer, preference, present, probability, quarter, reign, relief, room, run, scope, season, sec, second, shake, shift, shot, show, space, span, spare moment, spare time, spell, split second, squeak, stab, stage, stint, stretch, suitable time, tempo, term, the hunt, the running, three winks, tick, tide, time, tour, trice, turn, twinkle, twinkling, week, whack, whenever, while, wink, year

Antonyms

bad luck, closing, closure, ending, future, inconvenience, inexpedience, inutility, misfortune, past, reality, triviality, truth, unimportance, unsuitability, uselessness, waste, whole