Definition of Light hour

1. Noun. The distance light travels in a vacuum in one hour; approximately one billion kilometers.

Generic synonyms: Astronomy Unit
Group relationships: Light Year, Light-year

Lexicographical Neighbors of Light Hour

light echo
light elf
light elves
light engine
light engines
light filter
light flyweight
light gel
light globe
light globes
light green SF yellowish
light gun
light guns
light harvesting system
light heavyweight
light hour (current term)
light industry
light infantry
light intensity
light into
light machine gun
light metal
light meter
light meters
light microscope
light microscopy
light middleweight
light minute
light novel

Literary usage of Light hour

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Evangel by Robert H Coleman (1911)
"... Thro' thy tran-quil Twi-light hour, twi-light hour, -»—*—•- , v \ fer rit. 'vr arc i Je - sus speaks and bids us "Come"! sweet home. dream the [Omit ..."

2. The Golden Rule: A Collection of Songs, Hymns, and Chants for Sunday-schools by S W Straub (1872)
"... in by-gone days ; sad tears are shed ; We hear them oft at twi - light hour. When sets the sun, and 'shuts the flower. ..."

3. The Tonart: A Collection of Sacred and Secular Music Comprising Hymn Tunes by John Paul Morgan, Edward Roberts (1868)
"4. The songs that ech - о through the glade Are from far dis - tant bower. And thoughts of love a-lone per - vade The heart at twi-light hour. ..."

4. The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America by United States, George Minot, George P. Sanger (1856)
"194. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, making appropriations for light-hour.s &c., thirty-five thousand dollars. For improving the road from the Coxo or ..."

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