/ Dictionary / Index H hourly: Meaning and Definition of Find definitions for: hour•ly Pronunciation: (our'lē, ou'ur-), [key] — adj. of, pertaining to, occurring, or done each successive hour: hourly news reports. computed or totaled in terms of an hour; using an hour as a basic unit of reckoning: hourly wages. hired to work for wages by the hour: hourly workers. frequent; continual. —adv. every hour; hour by hour. at each hour or during every hour. frequently; continually. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease. See also: hourly (Thesaurus) hourlong Housatonic Related Content Daily Word Quiz: procrastinate Analogy of the Day: Today’s Analogy Spelling Bee: Today’s Spelling Bee Frequently Misspelled Words Frequently Mispronounced Words Easily Confused Words Writing & Language