- a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc
- one's times of rising and going to bed (esp in the phrases keep regular, irregular, or late hours)
- an indefinite period of time
- Also called (in the Roman Catholic Church): canonical hours
- the seven times of the day laid down for the recitation of the prayers of the divine office
- the prayers recited at these times
- the hours just after midnight
- until very late
- another word for the Horae
