"five o'clock" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} five o'clock (uncountable)
  1. (In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the sixth hour of the day; 5:00 a.m. (05:00). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Time Translations (the start of the sixth hour): اَلسَّاعَة اَلْخَامِسَة (as-sāʕa l-ḵāmisa) [feminine] (Arabic), les cinc [feminine, plural] (Catalan), 五點鐘 (Chinese Mandarin), 五点钟 (jiǔ diǎn zhōng) (Chinese Mandarin), 五點 (Chinese Mandarin), 五点 (jiǔ diǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), ga atɔ̃ [neuter] (Ewe), viisi (Finnish), kello viisi (Finnish), cinq heures [feminine, plural] (French), fünf Uhr (German), klukkan fimm (Icelandic), 五時 (go-ji) (alt: ごじ) (Japanese), 다섯시 (daseotsi) (Korean), hora quinta (Latin), ashdladi azlį́į́ʼ (Navajo), naano-diba'igane (Ojibwe), piąta [feminine] (Polish), cinco horas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), las cinco [feminine, plural] (Spanish), klockan fem (Swedish), năm giờ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-five_o'clock-en-noun-uK4BavCO Disambiguation of Time: 50 50 0 Disambiguation of 'the start of the sixth hour': 65 33 1
  2. (Only in the 12-hour clock) The start of the eighteenth hour of the day; 5:00 p.m. (17:00). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Time
    Sense id: en-five_o'clock-en-noun-olqdAqEu Disambiguation of Time: 50 50 0
  3. (informal) A position behind and slightly to the right (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 5 mark on a clock face) Tags: informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Five Derived forms: five o’clock shadow (english: it's five o'clock somewhere)
    Sense id: en-five_o'clock-en-noun-sG0s39lw Disambiguation of Five: 30 24 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 6 85

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      "sense": "the start of the sixth hour",
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      "sense": "the start of the sixth hour",
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