Meaning of small hours | Babel Free

Definitions

The very early morning, just after midnight, when most people are asleep.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.”

“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.”

“...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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