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FromMiddle Englishafternone,after-non, equivalent toafter- +‎noon.

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afternoon (pluralafternoons)

  1. The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, orsuppertime or 6pm.
    • 1601,Arthur Dent,Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen, page138:
      Theſe menſerue God in theforenoone, and thediuell in theafter noone;
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,page58:
      The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certainafternoon 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.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLV, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC,pages374–375:
      If theafternoon 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.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, “Miss Thyrza’s Chair”, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC,page41:
      Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in theafternoon light.
    • 1966,The Kinks,Sunny Afternoon:
      And I love to live so pleasantly/Live this life of luxury/Lazing on a sunnyafternoon/In the summertime
    • 1970,Saul Bellow, chapter 1, inMr. Sammler’s Planet‎[1], Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published1971, page 8:
      For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus lateafternoons 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.
    • 1988 May 6, Michael Miner, “"Chicago Times" Reaches for the Cutting Edge; Nicole Drieske Goes Public; Harry Golden”, inChicago Reader‎[2]:
      We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin ourafternoons.
  2. (figuratively) Thelaterpart ofanything,often withimplications ofdecline.
  3. (informal) Aparty orsocialeventheld in the afternoon.

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part of the day between noon and evening

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Adverb

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afternoon (notcomparable)

  1. (archaic in thesingular) In the afternoon.
    • 1646 March 19, Adam Eyre, “A Dyurnall, or Catalogue of All My Accions and Expences from the 1st of January, 1646–[7]”, inYorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, published1877,page22:
      I stayd at home till noone, and recd of Crowders for 3 loods of shilling 2l. 8s.; andafternoone I went with my wife to Wakefeild, where by ye way I spent at Toppitt 8d., and wee lay at Jackson’s all night.
    • 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, volume12, published1812,column61:
      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.
    • 1752 [1699],Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri, anonymous translator,A Voyage Round the World,page289:
      Afternoon we came toFuchen, orXucheu, as others call it, where we were forced to stay to have the boat search’d by theMandarine or customer.

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afternoon

  1. Ellipsis ofgood afternoon.

References

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  • “afternoon”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
  • "afternoon,n.,adv., andint.", in theOxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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