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Bookmark or Share- Origin of 'wee hours' - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWee hours mean the early hours of a day, or the period immediately after midnight. They are called so because the word 'wee' in present-day English means 'very small or tiny'. As these hours are the beginning of the new day they came to be referred to as the wee hours.
- 3 Synonyms & Antonyms for SMALL HOURS - Thesaurus.comFind 3 different ways to say SMALL HOURS, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
- SMALL HOURS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionarysmall hours. British. plural noun. If something happens in the small hours, it happens soon after midnight, in the very early morning. They were arrested in the small hours of Saturday morning. [+ of] Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
- SMALL HOURS Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comSmall hours definition: hours after midnight; early morning hours. See examples of SMALL HOURS used in a sentence.
- small hours, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English DictionaryThe earliest known use of the noun small hours is in the early 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for small hours is from 1718, in the writing of Allan Ramsay, poet. small hours is formed within English, by compounding.
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