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say it: OWR-lee
hourly is an adjective and adverb meaning "occurring every hour or payable by the hour". It is pronounced /ˈaʊɹli/ — OWR-lee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
every hour; by the hour
“daily, hourly, I grew stronger”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hourly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.