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afternoon

noun

  1. time of the day between noon and evening
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌɑːf.təˈnuːn/ / /ˌaf.təˈnuːn/ / /ˌaf.təɾˈnʉn/

adv

Etymology: From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.

  1. In the afternoon.

    I stayd at home till noone, and recᵈ of Crowders for 3 loods of shilling 2l. 8s.; and afternoone I went with my wife to Wakefeild, where by yᵉ way I spent at Toppitt 8d., and wee lay at Jackson’s all night.

    Afterwards […] they adjourned the court till two in the afternoon, and so went to prayers. Afternoon they called over the names of the rest of the college, demys, chaplains, &c.

intj

Etymology: From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.

  1. Ellipsis of good afternoon.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.

  1. The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.

    Theſe men ſerue God in the forenoone, and the diuell in the after noone;

    The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

  2. The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.

    Buck.[…]Theſe both put by a poore petitioner A care-crazd mother of a many children, A beauty-waining and diſtreſſed widow, Euen in the afternoone of her beſt daies Made priſe and purchaſe of his luſtfull eye, Seduc t the pitch and height of al his thoughts, To baſe declenſion and loathd bigamie, By her in his vnlawfull bed he got.

  3. A party or social event held in the afternoon.