afternoon

Definitions

1. late
2. The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
3. The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.
   figuratively
4. A party or social event held in the afternoon.
   informal
5. evening
6. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

Equivalents

57 more languages

Afrikaansmiddag

العربيةبَعْدَ الزَّوَالبعد الظّهرزَوَالِيّظهرعشيعصرهاجري+ 4 more

Azərbaycan diliikindi

Българскиследобед

བོད་སྐད།དགོང་དྲོ

Bosanskipopodneposlepodneposlijepodneпоподнепослеподнепослијеподне+ 3 more

Catalàhorabaixatardavesprada

Češtinaodpoledne

Cymraegprynhawn

Danskeftermiddag

Ελληνικάαπόγευμααπογευματινόςδειλινό

Esperantoposttagmezo

Eestipärastlõuna

Euskaraarratsalde

Suomiiltapäivä

Gaeilgeiarnóinnóintráthnóna

Gàidhligfeasgar

Galegotarde

हिन्दीअपराह्नदोपहर

Hrvatskipopodneposlepodneposlijepodneпоподнепослеподнепослијеподне+ 3 more

Magyardélután

Հայերենցերեկ

Bahasa Indonesiasore

Íslenskaeftirmiðdagurseinnipartursíðdegi

Italianopomeriggio

日本語下午午後

ქართულინაშუადღევი

ភាសាខ្មែររសៀល

한국어오후

Kurdîsorê

Latinavesper

Lietuviųpopietė

Latviešupēcpusdiena

Malagasyhariva

Te Reo Māoriahiahi

Македонскипопладне

മലയാളംഅപരാഹ്നംഇടനേരം

Bahasa Melayupetangsoreسوريڤتڠ+ 1 more

Maltiwaranofsinhar

မြန်မာညနေနေ့လည်မွန်းလွဲ

Nederlandsnamiddag

Polskinaodwieczerzodwieczerzpopołudniepopołudniowy+ 1 more

Portuguêstarde

Românădupă masădupă-amiază

Русскийвтора́я полови́на дняпополуднипослеобеденное время

Shqippasdrekë

Српскиpopodneposlepodneposlijepodneпоподнепослеподнепослијеподне+ 3 more

Sesothomantsibuya

Svenskaeftermiddag

தமிழ்நடுப்பகல்பிற்பகல்மதியம்மத்தியானம்+ 1 more

తెలుగుమధ్యాహ్నం

ไทยตอนบ่าย

TagalogHapon

Türkçeikindiöğleden sonra

Українськапополудні

اردودوپہر

Tiếng Việtbuổi chiềuchiêuhôm

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light⟳.”

“And I love⟳ to live⟳ so pleasantly/Live⟳ this life of luxury/Lazing on a sunny afternoon/In the summertime”

“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.”

“We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons.”

“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.”

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