🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

深夜来电

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shēn yè lái diàn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Late-night call/ˈleɪt.naɪt kɔːl/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"一个深夜来电打破了屋里的宁静。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A telephone call received or made late at night, often implying urgency, intimacy, or bad news.

    "She was startled by a late-night call from her brother living overseas."
  2. 2

    A confidential or romantic conversation conducted over the phone during late nocturnal hours.

    "Their late-night calls lasted for hours until they both fell asleep."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the adjectives 'late' (Old English 'læt') and 'night' (Old English 'niht'), paired with the noun 'call' (Old Norse 'kalla'). The compound phrase emerged in contemporary telecommunication culture to signify urgent, intimate, or unexpected nocturnal communication.

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