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- [zeer-oh ouuh r, ou-er]
- /ˈzɪər oʊ aʊər, ˈaʊ ər/
- /ˈzɪərəʊ ˈaʊə(r)/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [zeer-oh ouuh r, ou-er]
- /ˈzɪər oʊ aʊər, ˈaʊ ər/
Definitions of zero hour words
- noun zero hour the time set for the beginning of a military attack or operation. 1
- noun zero hour the time set for the beginning of any event or action. 1
- noun zero hour a decisive or critical time. 1
- noun zero hour the time set for the start of an attack or the initial stage of an operation 0
- noun zero hour a critical time, esp at the commencement of an action 0
- noun zero hour the hour or moment at which a military attack or other important operation is to begin 0
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Origin of zero hour
First appearance:
before 1915 One of the 14% newest English words
First recorded in 1915-20
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Zero hour
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
zero hour popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 46% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
zero hour usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for zero hour
noun zero hour
- appointment — The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- contingency — A contingency is something that might happen in the future.
- critical mass — In physics, the critical mass of a substance is the minimum amount of it that is needed for a nuclear chain reaction.
- critical period — a period in a lifetime during which a specific stage of development usually occurs. If it fails to do so, it cannot readily occur afterwards
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