four o'clock noun5 •The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).The breakfast buffet opens at four o'clock (= "The breakfast buffet opens at 4:00 a.m."). •The start of the seventeenth hour of the day; 4:00 p.m. (16:00).The next train comes at four o'clock (= "The next train comes at 16:00"). •(informal) A position to the right and slightly behind (horizontal clock orientation) (from the location of the 4 mark on a clock face)We've got a bogey at four o'clock. •Any of several plants, of the genus Mirabilis, whose funnel-shaped flowers open in late afternoon. •The friarbirds (Philemon spp.); so called from its cry, which resembles these words. formsfour-o'clocks