AT AN UNEARTHLY HOUR

Meaning of AT AN UNEARTHLY HOUR in English

( informal ) very early, especially when this is annoying :

The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AN — [an] 1. interr part -; an ille habe le libro? has he the book?; 2. conj whether -an suffixo adjective …
Interlingua English vocab
AT — I. ət, (ˈ)at, usu -d.+V preposition Etymology: Middle English, from Old English æt; akin to Old High German az at, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
AN — I. _ən, after some consonants often ə n, esp emphatic or hesitating or after a pause (|)an; see usage note …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
-AN
Webster's New International English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — “+ adjective : not earthly: as a. : not belonging to or characteristic of this earth : not terrestrial the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — (a.) Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound.
Английский словарь Webster
AN — () This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of …
Английский словарь Webster
UNEARTHLY — ( a. ) Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
AN — This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — — unearthliness , n. /un errth"lee/ , adj. 1. seeming not to belong to this earth or world: unearthly beauty. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HOUR — — hourless , adj. /oweur, ow"euhr/ , n. 1. a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
AN — an 1 /euhn/ ; when stressed /an/ , indefinite article. the form of a before an initial vowel sound ( …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
AN — I. ən, (ˈ)an indefinite article Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ān one — more at one Date: before 12th …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UNEARTHLY — adjective Date: 1611 : not earthly: as a. : not mundane : ideal unearthly love b. : not terrestrial unearthly …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HOUR — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ure, eure, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin hora canonical hour, from Latin, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UNEARTHLY — adj not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound.
Webster English vocab
HOUR — noun a measure of distance traveled. 2. hour ·noun the twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. 3. hour ·noun …
Webster English vocab
AT — prep the relations of time, age, or order; as, at ten o'clock; at twenty-one; at once; at first. 2. at …
Webster English vocab
AN — conj if; a word used by old english authors. 2. an ·- this word is properly an adjective, but …
Webster English vocab
HOUR — [hour] n [ME, fr. OF heure, fr. LL & L; LL hora canonical hour, fr. L, hour of the day, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
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Merriam-Webster English vocab
HOUR — in timekeeping, 3,600 seconds, now defined in terms of radiation emitted from atoms of the element cesium under specified conditions. …
Britannica English vocabulary
UNEARTHLY — / ʌnˈɜːθli; NAmE -ˈɜːrθ-/ adjective [ usually before noun ] very strange; not natural and therefore frightening : an unearthly …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOUR — / ˈaʊə(r); NAmE / noun HELP NOTE : Use an , not a , before hour . 1. [ C …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — un ‧ earth ‧ ly /ʌnˈɜːθli $ -ˈɜːr-/ BrE AmE adjective [ Word Family: noun : ↑ earth , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HOUR — hour S1 W1 /aʊə $ aʊr/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: heure …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
AT — at S1 W1 /ət; strong æt/ BrE AmE preposition [ Language: Old English ; Origin: æt ] 1 . used …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
AN — I. a S1 W1 /ə; strong eɪ/ BrE AmE ( also an ) indefinite article , determiner 1 . used …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UNEARTHLY — adj. 1 supernatural, mysterious. 2 colloq. absurdly early or inconvenient (an unearthly hour). 3 not earthly. øøunearthliness n.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HOUR — n. 1 a twenty-fourth part of a day and night, 60 minutes. 2 a time of day, a point in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
AN — adj. the form of the indefinite article (see A(1)) used before words beginning with a vowel sound (an egg; an …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
UNEARTHLY — adj. 1 supernatural, mysterious. 2 colloq. absurdly early or inconvenient (an unearthly hour). 3 not earthly. unearthliness n.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HOUR — n. 1 a twenty-fourth part of a day and night, 60 minutes. 2 a time of day, a point in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
AN — adj. the form of the indefinite article (see A(1)) used before words beginning with a vowel sound (an egg; an …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — adj.1 supernatural, mysterious. 2 colloq. absurdly early or inconvenient (an unearthly hour). 3 not earthly. Derivatives: unearthliness n.
Oxford English vocab
HOUR — n.1 a twenty-fourth part of a day and night, 60 minutes. 2 a time of day, a point in time …
Oxford English vocab
UNEARTHLY — 1. You use unearthly to describe something that seems very strange and unnatural. For a few seconds we watched the …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOUR — ( hours) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. An hour is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AT — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The cabin was surrounded by an unearthly green light. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adams's …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HOUR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES 24 hours a day (= during the whole day and night ) ▪ In Cairo, …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
UNEARTHLY — (INCONVENIENT) [adjective] -ier, -iest [informal] - (of a time) very inconvenient because it is too early in the morning or …
Cambridge English vocab
HOUR — [noun] [C] - a period of 60 minutesThe exam lasted an hour/three hours/half an hour/a quarter of an hour/an hour …
Cambridge English vocab
UNEARTHLY — adj. Unearthly is used with these nouns: ↑ hour , ↑ howl
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HOUR — noun 1 period of sixty minutes ADJECTIVE ▪ full , solid ▪ I slept for eight solid ~s. ▪ contact …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
UNEARTHLY — adj. 25B6; adjective an unearthly chill in the air : OTHER-WORLDLY, supernatural, preternatural, alien; ghostly, spectral, phantom, mysterious, spine-chilling, hair-raising; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
UNEARTHLY — adj. 1 supernatural, unnatural, preternatural, unworldly, other-worldly, psychic(al), extramundane, extraterrestrial, extrasensory, supersensory, out-of-(the)-body, asomatous, incorporeal, sublime, celestial, astral They speculated …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
AN — indefinite article BAD : I had never visited an hospital before. GOOD : I had never visited a hospital before. …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
UNEARTHLY — прил. 1) неземной, сверхъестественный; загадочный, таинственный, мистический Syn : supernatural, heavenly 2) разг. странный; абсурдный; крайне неподходящий неземной; сверхъестественный - …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HOUR — сущ. 1) час to show, tell the hour ≈ показывать время a solid hour ≈ целый час an ungodly hour …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
AT — I (полная форма); (редуцированная форма) предл. 1) (самое общее значение нахождения в некоторой точке пространства) у, в, за, на He …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
UNEARTHLY — unearthly.ogg ʌnʹɜ:θlı a 1. 1> неземной; сверхъестественный unearthly beauty - неземная красота unearthly din - адский шум unearthly love - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HOUR — hour.ogg ʹaʋə n 1. час twenty-four hours - сутки, 24 часа at the hour of seven - в семь часов …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
AT — at.ogg æt (полная форма); ət (редуцированная форма) prep 1. в пространственном значении указывает на 1> нахождение около какого-л. предмета у, …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HOUR — час - actinometric hour - actual hours - block hour - busy hours - climatological hour - crush hours - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
HOUR — час - actinometric hour - actual hours - block hour - busy hours - climatological hour - crush hours - heavy hours - hour of observation - inverse hour - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
UNEARTHLY — unearthly прил.1) неземной, сверхъестественный; загадочный, таинственный, мистический Syn:supernatural, heavenly 2) разг. странный; абсурдный; крайне неподходящий at that unearthly hour — …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
UNEARTHLY — a 1. 1> неземной; сверхъестественный unearthly beauty - неземная красота unearthly din - адский шум unearthly love - неземная /идеальная/ …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HOUR — n 1. час twenty-four hours - сутки, 24 часа at the hour of seven - в семь часов an hour's …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
AT — prep 1. в пространственном значении указывает на 1> нахождение около какого-л. предмета у, около at the door the window, the …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь

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