"wee hours" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wee hour [singular]
Head templates: {{en-noun|p|sg=wee hour}} wee hours pl (normally plural, singular wee hour)
  1. The very early morning; the early morning hours; the nighttime hours following midnight, when most people are asleep. Tags: plural, plural-normally Categories (topical): Times of day Synonyms: wee small hours, early morning Synonyms (very early morning): small hours Translations (very early morning): pikkutunnit (Finnish), petites heures [feminine, plural] (French), früger Morgen [masculine] (German), הַשָּׁעוֹת הַקְּטַנּוֹת (hasha'ót haqtanót) [feminine, plural] (Hebrew), hancrēd (Old English), but see do białego rana (Polish), madrugada [feminine] (Portuguese), altas horas [feminine, plural] (Spanish), las tantas [feminine, plural, singular] (Spanish), madrugada [feminine] (Spanish), småtimmarna (Swedish), dis-oras (Tagalog), sáng sớm (Vietnamese), đêm (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "very early morning",
          "word": "pikkutunnit"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "very early morning",
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          "word": "petites heures"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "very early morning",
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          "word": "früger Morgen"
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          "sense": "very early morning",
          "word": "småtimmarna"
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          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "very early morning",
          "word": "dis-oras"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "very early morning",
          "word": "sáng sớm"
        },
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "very early morning",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
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      "sense": "very early morning",
      "word": "hancrēd"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "note": "no equivalent term in Polish",
      "sense": "very early morning"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
      "word": "but see do białego rana"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "madrugada"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "very early morning",
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        "feminine",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
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        "plural",
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      "sense": "very early morning",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "madrugada"
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      "sense": "very early morning",
      "word": "småtimmarna"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "very early morning",
      "word": "dis-oras"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "very early morning",
      "word": "sáng sớm"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "very early morning",
      "word": "đêm"
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  "word": "wee hours"
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