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small hours
plural noun
- hours after midnight; early morning hours:
We danced into the small hours.
small hours
plural noun
- the small hoursthe early hours of the morning, after midnight and before dawn
Word History and Origins
Origin of small hours1
Idioms and Phrases
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]Example Sentences
But as the puddles swell and the temperature drops in the small hours at Battersea Park Athletics Club, the only thing on runners’ minds is survival.
On Monday, police said Mr Khalusha was detained at a bar in the small hours of that morning while watching the Euro final football match.
At least 112 Palestinians were killed as crowds rushed around lorries delivering desperately needed food aid in the small hours of Thursday morning.
In the small hours, or when you wake up if you’re not as nerdy as me, we’ll have the results and you can catch all the analysis here in the morning.
The UN was moving aid convoys in the small hours of the morning to stop them being robbed.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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