Test your vocabulary with our 10-question quiz!
TAKE THE QUIZ“the hour”
The following 6 entries include the term the hour.
after the hour
idiom—used with a certain number of minutes to indicate how long after the beginning of an hour something will happen
at the top of the hour
idiom: at the beginning of the hour (at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, etc.)
before the hour
idiom—used with a certain number of minutes to indicate how long before the beginning of an hour something will happen
every hour on the hour
idiom: at the beginning of each hour (at 12:00, 1:00, 2:00, etc.)
on the hour
idiom: at the beginning of the next hour
past the hour
idiom—used with a certain number of minutes to indicate how long after the beginning of an hour something will happen
Love words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
