early-morning hour
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2.6
- noun
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- Pictures of the Orionid meteor shower, which lit up the skies in the early morning hours of Oct. 21.
So it's a three day weekend in the early morning hours without a camera on.
- So it's a three day weekend in the early morning hours without a camera on.
- I have no idea other than it's like early wee, early morning hours on some day of the week just passed.
- OK, well, throughout the day I will be researching content and the early morning hours I'll be researching content for that longer video in the morning.
Examples
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Banish had spent the better part of two early morning hours going over it with a red pen.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the early morning hours, students were allowed to escape to the south.
Academic text (1990) -
For me, the early morning hours are the best time for score study.
Academic text (2005) -
And that is just what I did in the early morning hours this Wednesday.
Blog text (33) -
As an early bird, I will tell you that I savor the early morning hours.
Blog text (14) -
In the early morning hours, she heard a car drive up, then a tapping on a door downstairs.
Fiction book (1999) -
We arrived at Petra at an early morning hour just after the day had dawned.
Academic text (2000) -
Both performances were recorded during the early morning hours in the Manhattan Center Studios on West 34th Street.
Academic text (2007) -
In the early morning hours of Friday, May 20, the Confederates abandoned their second and last position around Cassville.
Academic text (2007) -
The streets are peaceful at this early-morning hour, with few people around.
Synonyms
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1.0
The first light in the sky before the sun rises
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1.0
The time in the morning when the sun comes up and day begins
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1.4
The early part of the morning when people begin daily activities
How Early
Surface Forms
Morphology
early-morning + hour
The meaning is directly compositional: 'early-morning' (the early part of the morning) modifies 'hour' (a sixty-minute period), so the phrase simply denotes an hour occurring in the early morning. This adjective+noun compounding is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily understand.
Etymology
The phrase early-morning hour shows a clear picture: early, morning, and hour mean the first hour just after 'sunrise', when streets are quiet and shops open, so it means the hour at the very start of the day.