O'CLOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does o'clock mean? 

• O'CLOCK (adverb)
  The adverb O'CLOCK has 1 sense:

1. according to the clock

  Familiarity information: O'CLOCK used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• O'CLOCK (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

According to the clock

Context example:

it's three o'clock in Tokyo now

 Context examples 

And we start at three o'clock, for I am their man, and that which they say is to be done, I do.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was between ten and eleven o'clock when Mrs. Micawber rose to replace her cap in the whitey-brown paper parcel, and to put on her bonnet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I won't start out till ten o'clock.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It is two o'clock, and the doctor will be here soon now.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At twelve o'clock, they were to call for her in Pulteney Street; and “Remember—twelve o'clock,” was her parting speech to her new friend.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I have not seen him since seven o'clock.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

No letter or telegram had come to me at Southampton, and I reached the little villa at Streatham about ten o'clock that night in a fever of alarm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No one wanted to go to bed when at ten o'clock Mrs. March put by the last finished job, and said, "Come girls."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Promptly at nine o'clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)