See small hours on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the small number used to identify such hours (e.g. 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock).",
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"ref": "1949 September and October, “The \"Nord Express\"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:",
"text": "Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.",
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},
{
"ref": "1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265:",
"text": "Then follows a quiet period during the small hours, marked by the departure of the other newspaper trains and some van trains, and by the arrival of the mail train from Weymouth.",
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},
{
"ref": "2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:",
"text": "...the writer conjured up a dystopian fantasy more berserk than anything you might find yourself listening to in the small hours at the Stone Circle.",
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}
],
"glosses": [
"The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep."
],
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"morning",
"morning"
],
[
"midnight",
"midnight"
],
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"asleep",
"asleep"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "wee hours"
},
{
"word": "wee small hours"
},
{
"word": "ungodly hours"
},
{
"word": "early morning"
}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "matinada"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "língchén",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "凌晨"
},
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "very early morning",
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"word": "kleine uurtjes"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "la tre malfruaj horoj"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "aamuyö"
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"sense": "very early morning",
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"word": "pikkutunnit"
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"sense": "very early morning",
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"word": "petites heures"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very early morning",
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"plural"
],
"word": "frühe Morgenstunden"
},
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "dini hari"
},
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "very early morning",
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"word": "pogańska godzina"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "za pólnočʹ",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "за по́лночь"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni svet ni zarjá",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "ни свет ни заря́"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "altas horas"
},
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "småtimmarna"
},
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"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "dis-oras"
}
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],
"word": "small hours"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From the small number used to identify such hours (e.g. 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock).",
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"ref": "1949 September and October, “The \"Nord Express\"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:",
"text": "Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265:",
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{
"ref": "2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:",
"text": "...the writer conjured up a dystopian fantasy more berserk than anything you might find yourself listening to in the small hours at the Stone Circle.",
"type": "quote"
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"The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep."
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"morning",
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[
"midnight",
"midnight"
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"asleep",
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"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "wee hours"
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{
"word": "wee small hours"
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{
"word": "ungodly hours"
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{
"word": "early morning"
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"translations": [
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "matinada"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "língchén",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "凌晨"
},
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
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"word": "kleine uurtjes"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "la tre malfruaj horoj"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "aamuyö"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "pikkutunnit"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "petites heures"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "very early morning",
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"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "frühe Morgenstunden"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "dini hari"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "pogańska godzina"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "za pólnočʹ",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "за по́лночь"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ni svet ni zarjá",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "ни свет ни заря́"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "altas horas"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "very early morning",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "småtimmarna"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "very early morning",
"word": "dis-oras"
}
],
"word": "small hours"
}
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