"three o'clock" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} three o'clock (uncountable)
  1. (In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the fourth hour of the day; 3:00 a.m. (03:00). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Three, Time Translations (the start of the fourth hour): اَلسَّاعَة اَلثَّالٰثَة (as-sāʕa ṯ-ṯalāṯa) [feminine] (Arabic), les tres [feminine] (Catalan), 三點鐘 (Chinese Mandarin), 三点钟 (sān diǎn zhōng) (Chinese Mandarin), ga etɔ̃ [neuter] (Ewe), kolme (Finnish), kello kolme (Finnish), trois heures [feminine] (French), drei Uhr (German), klukkan þrjú (Icelandic), 三時 (san-ji) (alt: さんじ) (Japanese), 세시 (sesi) (Korean), hora tertia (Latin), táadi azlį́į́ʼ (Navajo), niso-diba'igane (Ojibwe), trzecia [feminine] (Polish), três horas [feminine, plural] (Portuguese), три часа́ (tri časá) (Russian), las tres [feminine, plural] (Spanish), klockan tre (Swedish), ba giờ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-three_o'clock-en-noun-D3jgZbqL Disambiguation of Three: 34 28 38 Disambiguation of Time: 50 50 0 Disambiguation of 'the start of the fourth hour': 68 30 2
  2. (Only in the 12-hour clock) The start of the sixteenth hour of the day; 3:00 p.m. (15:00). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Three, Time
    Sense id: en-three_o'clock-en-noun-ii1anG2X Disambiguation of Three: 34 28 38 Disambiguation of Time: 50 50 0
  3. (informal) To the right (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 3 mark on a clock face) Tags: informal, uncountable Categories (topical): Three
    Sense id: en-three_o'clock-en-noun-7roNXJic Disambiguation of Three: 34 28 38 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 4 85

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      "roman": "as-sāʕa ṯ-ṯalāṯa",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "word": "اَلسَّاعَة اَلثَّالٰثَة"
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "三點鐘"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sān diǎn zhōng",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "三点钟"
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      "lang": "Ewe",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "trois heures"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "drei Uhr"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "klukkan þrjú"
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      "roman": "san-ji",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "三時"
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sesi",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "세시"
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "hora tertia"
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "táadi azlį́į́ʼ"
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "niso-diba'igane"
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "word": "três horas"
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      "roman": "tri časá",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
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      "word": "las tres"
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      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "klockan tre"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "note": "тре́тя годи́на f (trétja hodýna, literally “third hour”)",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the start of the fourth hour",
      "word": "ba giờ"
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