单词 | small hours |
释义 | small hoursSEE SYNONYMS FOR small hours ON THESAURUS.COM plural nounhours after midnight; early morning hours: We danced into the small hours. Origin of small hoursFirst recorded in 1830–40 Words nearby small hourssmall frog in a big pond, small fry, small game, small goods, small holding, small hours, small increment sensitivity index, small intestine, smallish, small letter, small-minded Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for small hours
British Dictionary definitions for small hourssmall hours pl nthe small hours the early hours of the morning, after midnight and before dawn Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with small hourssmall hours Also, wee hours. The hours following midnight, as in I stayed up working through the small hours, or The parents didn't come home until the wee hours. The adjectives small and wee both refer to the low numbers of those hours (one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.). [c. 1830] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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