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afternoon en · ADV
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˌæf.tɚˈnun/ (General-American)
- /ˌɑːf.təˈnuːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌaf.təɾˈnʉn/ (Scotland)
- (Received-Pronunciation) audio
- /ˌaf.təˈnuːn/ (Northern-England)
Etymology
From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.
Meanings
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(archaic, not-comparable, singular) In the afternoon.
Afternoon we came to Fuchen, or Xucheu, as others call it, where we were forced to stay to have the boat search’d by the Mandarine or customer.
1752 [1699], Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, anonymous translator, A Voyage Round the World, page 289: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.
1688, “Proceedings against St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxon, for not Electing Anthony Farmer President of the said College”, in T. B. Howell, editor, Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials, volume 12, published 1812, column 61: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.
1646 March 19, Adam Eyre, “A Dyurnall, or Catalogue of All My Accions and Expences from the 1st of January, 1646–[7]”, in Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, published 1877, page 22:
Forms
Relateds
afternoons
afternoon en · INTJ
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˌæf.tɚˈnun/ (General-American)
- /ˌɑːf.təˈnuːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌaf.təɾˈnʉn/ (Scotland)
- (Received-Pronunciation) audio
- /ˌaf.təˈnuːn/ (Northern-England)
Etymology
From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of good afternoon.
Forms
afternoon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /ˌæf.tɚˈnun/ (General-American)
- /ˌɑːf.təˈnuːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌaf.təɾˈnʉn/ (Scotland)
- (Received-Pronunciation) audio
- /ˌaf.təˈnuːn/ (Northern-England)
Etymology
From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.
Meanings
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The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 8:Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
1963, Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 41:If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on his stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 374–375:Theſe men ſerue God in the forenoone, and the diuell in the after noone;
1601, Arthur Dent, Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen, page 138:And I love to live so pleasantly/Live this life of luxury/Lazing on a sunny afternoon/In the summertime
1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon:We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons.
1988 May 6, Michael Miner, “"Chicago Times" Reaches for the Cutting Edge; Nicole Drieske Goes Public; Harry Golden”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2020: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.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
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(figuratively) 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.
c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
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(informal) A party or social event held in the afternoon.
Forms
Antonyms
morning
Deriveds
this afternoon · midafternoon · afternooner · afternoonish · afternoon delight · arvo · crafternoon · good afternoon · preafternoon · afternoon tea · aft · afternoon farmer
Descendants
aftanun · aftenun · apinun
Holonyms
day
Hypernyms
daytime
Hyponyms
sarvo · 'sarvo
Meronyms
undertide · undermeal · afternoon tea · teatime · midafternoon · foreday
Relateds
evening · dusk · early morning · midnight · midday · forenoon · dawn · first light · night · postdawn
Synonyms
undern · arvo · afternoon · aft · undertime
Translations (180)
gan 下晝 /下昼 (part of the day between noon and evening) · krc экинди (part of the day between noon and evening) · ka ნაშუადღევი (part of the day between noon and evening) · ee ɣetrɔ (part of the day between noon and evening) · to efiafi (part of the day between noon and evening) · trv bobo ceka naali (part of the day between noon and evening) · mn үдээс хойш (part of the day between noon and evening) · vi chiều (part of the day between noon and evening) · ru послеобе́денное вре́мя (part of the day between noon and evening) · tao makoyab (part of the day between noon and evening) · es tarde (part of the day between noon and evening) · tk ikindi (part of the day between noon and evening) · kxd patang (part of the day between noon and evening) · mg hariva (part of the day between noon and evening) · he אַחַר הַצָּהֳרַייִם (part of the day between noon and evening) · ms ڤتڠ (part of the day between noon and evening) · gsw Nomitag (part of the day between noon and evening) · ajp عصر (part of the day between noon and evening) · hy ցերեկ (part of the day between noon and evening) · ceb hapon (part of the day between noon and evening) · nv ałníʼníʼą́ą́ dóó bikʼijįʼ (part of the day between noon and evening) · my နေ့လည် (part of the day between noon and evening) · hi अपराह्न (part of the day between noon and evening) · ar بَعْدَ الزَّوَال (part of the day between noon and evening) · sgs popėitė (part of the day between noon and evening) · pt tarde (part of the day between noon and evening) · sh поподне (part of the day between noon and evening) · da eftermiddag (part of the day between noon and evening) · oj ishkwaa-naawakwe (part of the day between noon and evening) · de Nachmittag (part of the day between noon and evening) · te అపరాహ్నం (part of the day between noon and evening) · mt waranofsinhar (part of the day between noon and evening) · ta மத்தியானம் (part of the day between noon and evening) · gd feasgar (part of the day between noon and evening) · rgn dopmizdì (part of the day between noon and evening) · af middag (part of the day between noon and evening) · bcl hapon (part of the day between noon and evening) · qu sukha (part of the day between noon and evening) · nan-hbl 暗晡 (part of the day between noon and evening) · ca havent-dinat (part of the day between noon and evening) · ru втора́я полови́на дня (part of the day between noon and evening) · az ikindi (part of the day between noon and evening) · eo posttagmezo (part of the day between noon and evening) · wmw lulemba (part of the day between noon and evening) · kum экинни (part of the day between noon and evening) · ga tráthnóna (part of the day between noon and evening) · ar زَوَالِيّ (part of the day between noon and evening) · nl namiddag (part of the day between noon and evening) · ami herek no lahok (part of the day between noon and evening) · ilo malem (part of the day between noon and evening) · ibg fugak (part of the day between noon and evening) · apc بعد الظهر (part of the day between noon and evening) · it pomeriggio (part of the day between noon and evening) · ru пополу́дни (part of the day between noon and evening) · acw بعد الظهر (part of the day between noon and evening) · th ยามบ่าย (part of the day between noon and evening) · arz بعد الظهر (part of the day between noon and evening) · ms سوري (part of the day between noon and evening) · ko 오후 (part of the day between noon and evening) · tsu cohzona (part of the day between noon and evening) · mba hapun (part of the day between noon and evening) · sv eftermiddag (part of the day between noon and evening) · el απόγευμα (part of the day between noon and evening) · ajp بعد الظهر (part of the day between noon and evening) · ms petang (part of the day between noon and evening) · uk пополу́дні (part of the day between noon and evening) · ta மதியம் (part of the day between noon and evening) · tr öğleden sonra (part of the day between noon and evening) · my ညနေ (part of the day between noon and evening) · cmn 下午 (part of the day between noon and evening) · ur دوپہر (part of the day between noon and evening) · is síðdegi (part of the day between noon and evening) · mk попладне (part of the day between noon and evening) · ms sore (part of the day between noon and evening) · fi iltapäivä (part of the day between noon and evening) · bg следо́бед (part of the day between noon and evening) · lt popietė (part of the day between noon and evening) · zza bahdé dehir (part of the day between noon and evening) · scn pumiriggiu (part of the day between noon and evening) · sxr kʉlʉpʉngʉkumamahlipapu (part of the day between noon and evening) · aaa òtà (part of the day between noon and evening) · cy prynhawn (part of the day between noon and evening) · la vesper (part of the day between noon and evening) · sc meri (part of the day between noon and evening) · bnn tinongqu vali (part of the day between noon and evening) · te మధ్యాహ్నం (part of the day between noon and evening) · kk екінді (part of the day between noon and evening) · ckv qemadanan (part of the day between noon and evening) · rgn dopmëẓdè (part of the day between noon and evening) · fr après-midi (part of the day between noon and evening) · ast tarde (part of the day between noon and evening) · grc δείλη (part of the day between noon and evening) · crh ekindi (part of the day between noon and evening) · tr ikindi (part of the day between noon and evening) · vi buổi chiều (part of the day between noon and evening) · nog экинли (part of the day between noon and evening) · chr ᏒᎯᏰᏱᏗᏢ (part of the day between noon and evening) · bo དགོང་དྲོ (part of the day between noon and evening) · mhn nomitto (part of the day between noon and evening) · ivv makoyab (part of the day between noon and evening) · pl popołudnie (part of the day between noon and evening) · sh popodne (part of the day between noon and evening) · as ভাটিবেলা (part of the day between noon and evening) · tay babaw knryax (part of the day between noon and evening) · ba икенде (part of the day between noon and evening) · hi दोपहर (part of the day between noon and evening) · is eftirmiðdagur (part of the day between noon and evening) · ja 午後 (part of the day between noon and evening) · ca tarda (part of the day between noon and evening) · la postmeridianus dies (part of the day between noon and evening) · ar بَعْد الظُّهْر (part of the day between noon and evening) · acw عَصُر (part of the day between noon and evening) · id sore (part of the day between noon and evening) · sq pasdrekë (part of the day between noon and evening) · tkl afiafi (part of the day between noon and evening) · km រសៀល (part of the day between noon and evening) · yi נאָכמיטאָג (part of the day between noon and evening) · hil hapon (part of the day between noon and evening) · as বিয়লি (part of the day between noon and evening) · zza hela şani (diq) (part of the day between noon and evening) · ml ഇടനേരം (part of the day between noon and evening) · ro după-amiază (part of the day between noon and evening) · gag ikindi (part of the day between noon and evening) · ta நடுப்பகல் (part of the day between noon and evening) · nrf arlevaïe (part of the day between noon and evening) · nan-hbl 下晡 (part of the day between noon and evening) · sl popoldne (part of the day between noon and evening) · ta பிற்பகல் (part of the day between noon and evening) · ml അപരാഹ്നം (part of the day between noon and evening) · fa بعد از ظهر (part of the day between noon and evening) · no ettermiddag (part of the day between noon and evening) · pdt Nomeddach (part of the day between noon and evening) · ro după masă (part of the day between noon and evening) · hak 下晝 /下昼 (part of the day between noon and evening) · gl tarde (part of the day between noon and evening) · lij dòppodisnâ (part of the day between noon and evening) · ar عصر (part of the day between noon and evening) · uk пополу́день (part of the day between noon and evening) · pag ngarem (part of the day between noon and evening) · roa-gal vépreil (part of the day between noon and evening) · ga nóin (part of the day between noon and evening) · lo ຕອນແລງ (part of the day between noon and evening) · my မွန်းလွဲ (part of the day between noon and evening) · nrf arlévée (part of the day between noon and evening) · pam gatpanapun (part of the day between noon and evening) · he אחה״צ (part of the day between noon and evening) · as আবেলি (part of the day between noon and evening) · ltg piecpušdīne (part of the day between noon and evening) · tpi apinun (part of the day between noon and evening) · tt икенде (part of the day between noon and evening) · ca vesprada (part of the day between noon and evening) · ssf saqazi (part of the day between noon and evening) · ga iarnóin (part of the day between noon and evening) · pzh aahuuan (part of the day between noon and evening) · vo poszedel (part of the day between noon and evening) · hu délután (part of the day between noon and evening) · cs odpoledne (part of the day between noon and evening) · ca després-dinar (part of the day between noon and evening) · ota ایوار (part of the day between noon and evening) · ar هَاجِرِيّ (part of the day between noon and evening) · th ตอนบ่าย (part of the day between noon and evening) · is seinnipartur (part of the day between noon and evening) · fo seinrapartur (part of the day between noon and evening) · eu arratsalde (part of the day between noon and evening) · oc vèspre (part of the day between noon and evening) · war kulop (part of the day between noon and evening) · nan-hbl 下晝 /下昼 (part of the day between noon and evening) · kaw sore (part of the day between noon and evening) · la postmeridianum tempus (part of the day between noon and evening) · yue 下晝 /下昼 (part of the day between noon and evening) · lv pēcpusdiena (part of the day between noon and evening) · fo seinnapartur (part of the day between noon and evening) · tl hapon (part of the day between noon and evening) · mzn نماشون (part of the day between noon and evening) · be папаўдні́ (part of the day between noon and evening) · et pärastlõuna (part of the day between noon and evening) · hrx Nohmittach (part of the day between noon and evening) · as পিছবেলা (part of the day between noon and evening) · jv sore (part of the day between noon and evening) · ca horabaixa (part of the day between noon and evening)