hour vs sunset

hour and sunset both are nouns.

hour is not an adjective while sunset is an adjective.

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

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

hour: clock time
sunset: the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

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, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, none, happy hour, rush hour, zero hour, canonical hour.

hour (noun)	sunset (noun)
distance measured by the time taken to cover it	the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon
a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day	atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun
clock time	the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
a special and memorable period

hour (adjective)	sunset (adjective)
	providing for termination
	of a declining industry or technology

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