hour
UK: /aʊər/ US: /aʊr/Translation
n [c]
Véase tb: {hours/days/weeks...} on end; a matter of {hours/minutes/time}; a quarter of an hour; at the eleventh hour; half hour; happy hour; in the small hours; lunch hour; miles per hour; opening hours; rush hour; the early hours; unsocial hours› (unidad de tiempo)
⇨ hora
It took us two hours to get to Brussels Tardamos dos horas en llegar a Bruselas
› (momento determinado)
⇨ hora
the lunch hour la hora de la comida
after hours
⇨ después del trabajo
for hours (inform)
⇨ mucho tiempo
⇨ durante horas
I've been waiting here for hours Te he estado esperando durante horas
hours
⇨ horario
What hours do you work? ¿Qué horario tienes?
till all hours
⇨ hasta las tantas [de la madrugada] col.
■ Se dice At what time? - ¿A qué hora? y What time is it? - ¿Qué hora es? Incorrecto: At what hour? o What hour is it? ■ La forma abreviada es Hr(Definition of hour n from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact English-Spanish
© Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)
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