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Abbreviation of afternoon. [The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.]
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The time period between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. of a day.
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The hours and days when businesses generally operate; 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday.
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A period from midnight to the following midnight.
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Alternative form of daylight saving time [The practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day.]
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(historical chronometry) The duodecimal divisions of the day into "Chinese" or "double hours", beginning with 11 pm.
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(colloquial) Any time close to eight o'clock.
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Alternative form of fiveish [(colloquial) Any time close to five o'clock.]
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(colloquial) Any time close to four o'clock.
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(idiomatic) Exactly noon; midday (when the sun is at its highest).
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(Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
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(Christianity) One of the canonical hours of prime, terce, sext, nones, and usually compline, the services of which are shorter and considered less important than the three major hours of matins, lauds, and vespers.
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(US) A circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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Of, relating to, or occurring in the midmorning.
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The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm.
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noon; twelve o'clock during the day
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The middle of the evening.
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(poetic) The middle part of the day or night.
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Twelve o'clock at night exactly.
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Alternative spelling of midnight [The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.]
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(Philippines) Abbreviation of midnight. [The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.]
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(historical, sometimes capitalized) The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).
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The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
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A sundial with a cannon whose fuse is lit by a lens concentrating sunbeams, positioned to fire at noon.
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noontide; noon; the middle of the day.
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The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
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Obsolete form of noon. [The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.]
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(obsolete) every noon; daily at noon.
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A period of one day and one night, a date: in the West, this is a period of 24 consecutive hours.
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(colloquial) Any time close to one o'clock.
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Alternative form of p.m. [after noon (used after a time to indicate it is between noon and midnight, i.e., in the afternoon, evening or night as opposed to the morning)]
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after noon (used after a time to indicate it is between noon and midnight, i.e., in the afternoon, evening or night as opposed to the morning)
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Alternative form of p.m. [after noon (used after a time to indicate it is between noon and midnight, i.e., in the afternoon, evening or night as opposed to the morning)]
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(rare) Of or pertaining to the afternoon.
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After noon, in the afternoon.
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of or pertaining to the afternoon
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(historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
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Alternative form of sext [(historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.]
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(colloquial) Any time close to six o'clock.
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A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon.
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The local time when the sun is closest to its zenith
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(historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
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Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
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(colloquial) Any time close to three o'clock.
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The greeting appropriate to the time of day.
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(informal or meteorology) From 6am to 6pm on the current day.
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(colloquial) Any time close to two o'clock.
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(obsolete) Synonym of noon: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm).
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A time of the year; a season.
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