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O'CLOCK
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
According to the clock
Example:
it's three o'clock in Tokyo now
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Context examples:
At seven o'clock, leaving Marianne still sweetly asleep, she joined Mrs. Jennings in the drawing-room to tea.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
And it was settled that we should all be there by eleven o'clock.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The morning of the interesting day arrived, and Mrs. Weston's faithful pupil did not forget either at ten, or eleven, or twelve o'clock, that she was to think of her at four.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“So soon! my good friend,” said Sir Thomas, producing his watch with all necessary caution; “it is three o'clock, and your sister is not used to these sort of hours.”
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I'll be back at ten o'clock again.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It might have been about three o'clock in the morning when Alleyne was aroused from a troubled sleep by a low cry or exclamation.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This is however not a time of day with abundant communications but around 6 or 7 o'clock these levels will rise significantly.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
“Ten o'clock!” he cried.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I reached the lodge at Gateshead about five o'clock in the afternoon of the first of May: I stepped in there before going up to the hall.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I cook breakfast, I eat, then I sleep on the beach three hours. I wake up. It is ten o'clock. Snow is falling. There is wind, much wind that blows fair.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
