p.m.

[p.m.]

Between noon and midnight; "let''s meet at 8 P.M."

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Adjective S.
after noon

Adverb
between noon and midnight; "let''s meet at 8 P.M."


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Usage Examples

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind it's the opposite of healthy.

Misspelled Form

p.m., op.m., 0p.m., lp.m., o.m., 0.m., l.m., po.m., p0.m., pl.m., p,.m., p>.m., p?.m., p;.m., p,m., p>m., p?m., p;m., p.,m., p.>m., p.?m., p.;m., p.nm., p.jm., p.km., p.,m., p. m., p.n., p.j., p.k., p.,., p. ., p.mn., p.mj., p.mk., p.m,., p.m ., p.m,., p.m>., p.m?., p.m;., p.m,, p.m>, p.m?, p.m;, p.m.,, p.m.>, p.m.?, p.m.;.

Other Usage Examples

I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough.

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

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