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Bookmark or Share- What is the difference between early hours in the morning and at dawnIf the sun has just risen/is rising, you use sunrise, if there's twilight, you use dawn, otherwise use early hours of the morning. In practice, however, the two terms are treated interchangeably, so you can say 'at dawn' or 'in the early hours of the morning' (note: not 'at the early hours of the morning') and be fine either way.
- meaning - What time are the "Wee Hours"? - English Language Learners ...'Wee' is Scottish English for 'small', so "the wee hours of the morning" could be understood to be the 'small' (or low) numbers on the clock. Cambridge dictionary defines it as " the early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises ", but sunrise varies greatly in many places.
- Is there a term for the period between midnight and sunrise?On the 24-hour clock the hours before 10 am start with a 0; so 1:00 am is 0100 and said as oh-one-hundred and so forth. Thus oh-dark hundred is anytime after midnight while it is still dark: "They woke us up at oh-dark-hundred and ran us thru the obstacle course." means: they woke us up in the wee hours of the morning before daylight.
- What does the phrase "ungodly hour" really mean?She likes to be up at 7AM, which I consider ungodly. It depends on who you talk to but ungodly hours of the night are generally 10PM-10AM. In short, hours that are at times people prefer to be sleeping, stores are generally closed, and people are too tired to function the way they do during the day.
- single word requests - Precise names for parts of a day - English ...Night refers to the time after sunset. Accordingly, it can be both morning and night (this being pretty much the definition of the small hours). Midnight refers to exactly 0000/2400 hours, and the time just around it. 2301 is not midnight. "Good night" does not mean "have a good sleep".
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