horary
/ˈhɔːɹəɹi/adjective, noun
horary is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to an hour or hours” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-O-R-A-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does horary mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to an hour or hours.
- 2
Occurring every hour; hourly.
- 3
obsoleteHaving a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
- 4
Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
noun
- 1
rareA book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
- 2
A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
- 3
A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce horary?
- /ˈhɔːɹəɹi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of horary
- horaries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is horary?
Horary appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does horary come from?
From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).