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Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
Brian Sibley

Meaning of "the small hours" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE SMALL HOURS

the small hours play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE SMALL HOURS

the shield
the shit hits the fan
the shivers
the sidhe
the Silurian
the Silver Ferns
the silver screen
the Skaw
the slammer
the Slump
the small
the smit
the Smoke
the sniffles
the snuffles
the soil
the Solent
the Song of Solomon
the Soo Canals
the Sorbonne

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE SMALL HOURS

after-hours
banking hours
book of hours
business hours
consulting hours
daylight hours
hours
late hours
little hours
office hours
opening hours
ours
peak hours
school hours
shopping hours
small hours
till all hours
twenty-four hours
twilight hours
visiting hours
waking hours

Synonyms and antonyms of the small hours in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «the small hours» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE SMALL HOURS

Find out the translation of the small hours to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the small hours from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the small hours» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

凌晨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la madrugada
570 millions of speakers

English

the small hours
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छोटे घंटे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الساعات الصغيرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

маленькие часов
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a madrugada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছোট ঘন্টার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

les petites heures
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jam kecil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die kleinen Stunden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

深夜
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

작은 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jam cilik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

những giờ nhỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிறிய மணி நேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लहान तास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Küçük saatler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

le ore piccole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

małe godzin
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

маленькі годин
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mici de ore
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οι μικρές ώρες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die klein ure
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

småtimmarna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

de små timer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the small hours

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SMALL HOURS»

The term «the small hours» is very widely used and occupies the 20.708 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SMALL HOURS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the small hours

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3 QUOTES WITH «THE SMALL HOURS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the small hours.
1
Warren Littlefield
A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
2
Will Self
Is there anything more useless than a crouton? I sometimes wake up in the small hours with a start and realise that what's roused me is an overpowering urge to visit violence on its originator.
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Brian Sibley
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SMALL HOURS»

Discover the use of the small hours in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the small hours and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Small Hours
Written with deep psychological insight and coal-black humour The Small Hours is a stunning meditation on love, self-love and forgiveness, and their shadowy opposites.
Susie Boyt, 2012
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Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
A transcendent memoir by poet Maria Mutch about the distances that can form between people who should be the closest of all—husband and wife, parent and child, lifelong friends and partners.
Maria Mutch, 2014
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An Insomniac's Guide to the Small Hours
This is a book for anyone who has ever spent a night tossing and turning, worrying about life's worst scenarios. The Insomniac's Guide takes you on a journey that will have you laughing in your sleep (or lack of it).
Ysenda Maxtone-Graham, 2012
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According to the Small Hours
In this, his first collection of poems in fifteen years, Aidan Mathews brings together the sacred and the profane, playful and profound, the iconic and the everyday - illuminating the variousness and commonality of human experience.
Aidan Mathews, 2011
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A Death in the Small Hours
Fighting for the bill had been exhilarating, with sleepless night after sleepless night, the thrill of productive work, strong cups of coffee as the House debated into the small hours, the maddening lassitude of the lords. In the end it had passed.
Charles Finch, 2012
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Lord Gnome's Literary Companion
Lord Gnome's Literary Companion assembles, in thematic order, the best of these columns to present an astringent, rude and funny survey of publishers and the published. His review has got to be 'in' by mid-day tomorrow .
Francis Wheen, 1996
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
The hours following midnight, as in I stayed up working through the small hours, or The parents didn't come home until the wee hours. The adjectives small and wee both refer to the low numbers of those hours (one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.).
Christine Ammer, 2013
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The Small Hours
This is a contrast between the Kingdom of God and our Lord Jesus Christ and the kingdom of Satan, the Prince of the Power of the Air.
Frank Childs, 2002
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Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... for farming but which is much smaller than a typical farm 'small .hours plural noun the early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises: She was up until the small hours of the morning trying to finish ...
‎2008
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
tossed to and fro, until the small hours of the morning began to grow large. It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness and besieged by questions. Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1930

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SMALL HOURS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the small hours is used in the context of the following news items.
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#2 WRT Audi leads Spa 24 Hours after 16 hours of racing
The WRT Audi squad led the Spa 24 Hours round of the Blancpain ... which had battled it out at the front through the small hours, when the leaders had to stop ... «autosport.com, Jul 15»
2
In vote delayed into the small hours, Knesset decides to allow for …
Fearing it did not have a majority, coalition postponed the vote until 2:00 A.M., when Minster Yuval Steinitz was dragged out of bed to come vote. By Jonathan Lis ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
3
Up All Night: talk radio in the small hours
Roger McGough, meanwhile, was burbling away as part of the catchily named Selection Of World Service Programmes with which Radio 4 beguiles the hours ... «The Guardian, May 15»
4
Women urinating on the street in the small hours: the mark of a …
For women, emptying your bladder in the wee (ha) hours is usually an ordeal. Unequipped with a “the world is my fucking urinal” gammon hose, we usually rely ... «New Statesman, Mar 15»
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Myriam Gendron "The Small Hours"
Ottawa-born, Montreal-based artist Myriam Gendron digitally released Not So Deep as a Well last year, but it's now getting a proper physical release. To give ... «Exclaim!, Feb 15»
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Somalia's troubles come south
IN the small hours of December 2nd gunmen snuck up on a group of sleeping quarry workers in Mandera country, close to Kenya's border with Somalia. «The Economist, Dec 14»
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In pictures: Catwalk queens and celebrities party into small hours
THE who's who of the world of fashion, film and music carried on the partying into the small hours of the morning following the British Fashion Awards on ... «Scottish Daily Record, Dec 14»
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Keeping the streets safe in the small hours
Keeping the streets safe in the small hours. jgrewal | 21st Nov 2014 11:00 AM. jgrewal. Jessica Grewal Senior Reporter APN Newsdesk NSW Bureau Working ... «Fraser Coast Chronicle, Nov 14»
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Clooney and new bride party into the small hours
George Clooney and his bride reportedly stepped under an arch of white roses and exchanged vows before a spectacular wedding party on Saturday night, ... «The Times, Sep 14»
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Is working at night bad for you?
How much does working in the small hours harm the mind and body? ... the daytime, it is possible to work all night and still get eight hours sleep the follow day. «BBC News, Sep 14»

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