O'clock Definition

ə-klŏk
adverb
Of or according to the clock.
Nine o'clock at night.
Webster's New World
As if on a clock dial, with the number 12 straight ahead or directly overhead.
Webster's New World

Origin of O'clock

  • Short for of the clock

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

O'clock Sentence Examples

  • It's pushing two o'clock in the morning.

  • A council of war, which met at two o'clock in the morning to consider the practicability of Dahlberg's proposal, at once dismissed it as criminally hazardous.

  • He closed the door to Brandon Westlake and told the old photographer-antique collector to come back after nine o'clock, claiming a need to do his own Internet work.

  • Much as he disliked making Fred wait, he decided to put off the task until nine o'clock but another phone call forced a change of plans.

  • As five O'clock approached, she was beginning to wish she hadn't told Keaton that she would go with him.

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