small hours
plural noun
hours after midnight; early morning hours: We danced into the small hours.
Origin of small hours
First recorded in 1830–40
Words nearby small hours
Example sentences from the Web for small hours
In the small-hours of to-night we leave this wonderful place.
Letters to Helen |Keith HendersonYou must have enjoyed it better than you expected, for more than one of the ‘small-hours’ had struck before you came home.
Janet's Love and Service |Margaret M Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for small hours
small hours
pl n
the small hours
the early hours of the morning, after midnight and before dawn
Idioms and Phrases with small hours
small hours
Also, wee hours. 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.). [c. 1830]