hour vs mealtime

mealtime vs hour

hour and mealtime both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hour	Yes	No	No	No
mealtime	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mealtime is a hyponym of hour; that is, mealtime is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than hour:

hour: clock time
mealtime: the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten

Other hyponyms of hour include high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon, late-night hour, midnight, small hours, bedtime, closing time, aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup, early-morning hour, sundown, sunset, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, none, happy hour, rush hour, zero hour, canonical hour.

hour (noun)	mealtime (noun)
distance measured by the time taken to cover it	the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
clock time
a special and memorable period

Difference between hour and mealtime

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