hour vs rush hour

rush hour vs hour

hour and rush hour both are nouns.

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

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

hour: clock time
rush hour: the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work; the time of the day when the movement of people from one place to another is at its highest

Other hyponyms of hour include high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon, mealtime, 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, zero hour, canonical hour.

hour (noun)	rush hour (noun)
distance measured by the time taken to cover it	the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work; the time of the day when the movement of people from one place to another is at its highest
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
clock time
a special and memorable period

Difference between hour and rush hour

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