four o'clock · Learn English释义
名词noun
- 1(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).
- 2(Only in the 12-hour clock) The start of the seventeenth hour of the day; 4:00 p.m. (16:00).
- 3informalA position to the right and slightly behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 4 mark on a clock face)
- 4Any of several plants, of the genus Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon.
- 5The friarbirds (Philemon spp.); so called from its cry, which resembles these words.