p. m.
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p. m.
- Alternative form of p.m.
- 1933, Anna Allen Wright, Albert Hazen Wright, Handbook of Frogs and Toads: The Frogs and Toads of the United States and Canada (Handbooks of American Natural History; 1), Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publ., page 110:
- At 10 p. m., two miles west of Brownsville, in a resaca, found these frogs in small bushes, in weedy clumps, and even grassy tangles in overflowed tomato field adjoining the overflowed resaca.
- 1942 August 22, “Housekeeper Wanted by Tommy Riggss”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 199, Harrisburg, Pa.:
- Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs. McIntyre, will have harsh words over the size of the grocery bills, with the result that Tommy and Betty Lou will find themselves housekeeperless, on the “Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou” program Tuesday, over WHP and the Columbia network at 9 p. m.
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Phrase edit
- post meridiem — post meridiem (p.m.)
- per/pro mille (‰) — permille (per mille)
- pro memoria
- post mortem — post mortem (post-mortem, postmortem)
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Etymology edit
Abbreviation of Latin post meridiem (“after noon”).
Adverb edit
p. m.