The difference between Hour and Stound

When used as nouns, hour means a time period of sixty minutes, whereas stound means an hour.


Stound is also verb with the meaning: to hurt, pain, smart.

check bellow for the other definitions of Hour and Stound

  1. Hour as a noun:

    A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

    Examples:

    "I spent an hour at lunch."

  2. Hour as a noun:

    A season, moment, time or stound.

  3. Hour as a noun (poetic):

    The time.

    Examples:

    "The hour grows late and I must go home."

  4. Hour as a noun (military, in the plural):

    Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.

  5. Hour as a noun (chiefly, _, US):

    A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

    Examples:

    "This place is an hour away from where I live."

  1. Stound as a noun (chronology, obsolete, or, dialectal):

    An hour.

  2. Stound as a noun (obsolete):

    A tide, season.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Chaucer"

  3. Stound as a noun (archaic, or, dialectal):

    A time, length of time, hour, while.

  4. Stound as a noun (archaic, or, dialectal):

    A brief span of time, moment, instant.

    Examples:

    "Listen to me a little stound."

  5. Stound as a noun:

    A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.

  6. Stound as a noun (dialectal):

    A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.

  7. Stound as a noun (by extension):

    A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); a lashing; scourging

  8. Stound as a noun:

    A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.

  9. Stound as a noun:

    Astonishment; amazement.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Edmund Spenser"

    "rfquotek John Gay"

  1. Stound as a verb (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive):

    To hurt, pain, smart.

  2. Stound as a verb (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive):

    To be in pain or sorrow, mourn.

  3. Stound as a verb (obsolete, or, dialectal, intransitive):

    To long or pine after, desire.

  1. Stound as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To stand still; stop.

  2. Stound as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To stop to listen; pause.

  1. Stound as a noun (UK, _, dialectal):

    A stand; a stop.

  1. Stound as a noun:

    A receptacle for holding small beer.

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