small hours

1. 1.

   the hours just after midnight

   Broaderhour

   Part ofnight

Questions about small hours

What does small hours mean?

small hours means "the hours just after midnight".

Is small hours a common word?

small hours is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.