houre

houre (plural houres)

1. Obsolete spelling of hour.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     You come moſt carefully vpon your houre,

houria +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈhou̯reˣ/, [ˈho̞u̯re̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -oure
• Syllabification^(key): hou‧re
• Hyphenation^(key): hou‧re

houre

1. raving (wild or incoherent speech)

• hourailla
• hourailu

• “houre”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• rouhe

• hour, our, oure, howr, howre, ower
• awyr (c.1475)

From Anglo-Norman houre, from Latin hōra, from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra).

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːr(ə)/
• (Late Middle English) IPA^(key): [ʊwɾ]

houre (plural houres)

1. hour (a 60-minute period which the day has 24 of)
2. A time, occasion, or moment
3. A canonical hour or tide.
4. A divine office.

• English: hour (see there for further descendants)
• Northumbrian: oor
• Scots: oor

• “hǒure, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 23 April 2018.

houre

1. alternative form of oure

houre

1. alternative form of hore (“whore”)

• hore (early)
• heure (late)
• eure, heur, ore, oure, ure

From Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, season”).

houre oblique singular, f (oblique plural houres, nominative singular houre, nominative plural houres)

1. hour (unit of time)
2. time; moment to do something
   • c. 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     A l'hore de disner, a l'ostex repaira

     At dinnertime, he went back to his lodgings