(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ is the part of each day between the time that people usually wake up and 12 o’clock noon or lunchtime.
During the ~ your guide will take you around the city...
On Sunday ~ Bill was woken by the telephone...
He read about it in his ~ paper.
N-VAR
2.
If you refer to a particular time in the ~, you mean a time between 12 o’clock midnight and 12 o’clock noon.
I often stayed up until two or three in the ~...
N-SING: the N
3.
If you say that something will happen in the ~, you mean that it will happen during the ~ of the following day.
I’ll fly it to London in the ~...
PHRASE
4.
If you say that something happens ~, noon and night, you mean that it happens all the time.
You get fit by playing the game, day in, day out, ~, noon and night.
PHRASE: PHR after v