late-night hour
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3.7
- noun
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horas de la noche
Examples
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It doesn't matter that they return during late night hours.
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I'm finding more recently that people don't want to pay for a design concept (because of templates). It depends on what they want; many don't know what they want. For example, somebody last week asked me to put a concept together for them to pitch to a board. I said I would and spent three late-night hours testing two CMSs to determine which would suit the job better.
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Many people prefer to work on their creative projects during late-night hours when the world is quiet.
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The café stays open for meetings and socializing during late-night hours to cater to night owls.
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She often studies for her exams in the late-night hours when she finds it easier to concentrate.
Synonyms
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2.0
A time late in the evening when people stay awake to work or finish tasks
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4.9
A very early time in the morning soon after midnight
Antonyms
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
late-night + hour
The phrase is a straightforward adjectival + noun composition: 'late-night' (occurring late in the night) modifies 'hour' (a sixty-minute period), so the meaning 'an hour in the latter part of the night' is directly derivable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows normal English word-formation, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
Late-night hour paints a simple picture: one hour that comes late in the night, when the streets are quiet and most people are 'asleep', so it means the latter part of the night.