AFTERNOON meaning: Period between noon and evening

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word afternoon:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

afternoon: Merriam-Webster.com
afternoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
afternoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
afternoon: Collins English Dictionary
afternoon: Vocabulary.com
Afternoon, afternoon: Wordnik
afternoon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
afternoon: Wiktionary
afternoon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
afternoon: Infoplease Dictionary
Afternoon, afternoon: Dictionary.com
afternoon: Online Etymology Dictionary
afternoon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Afternoon (disambiguation), Afternoon (magazine), Afternoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Afternoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
afternoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
afternoon: Rhymezone
afternoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
afternoon: Free Dictionary
afternoon: Mnemonic Dictionary
afternoon: Dictionary/thesaurus
afternoon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
afternoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
afternoon: Merriam-Webster.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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afternoon: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

afternoon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
afternoon: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.
▸ noun:  (informal) A party or social event held in the afternoon.
▸ adverb:  (archaic in the singular) In the afternoon.

Opposite:

morning, dawn, forenoon, sunrise, daybreak

Types:

sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy, stormy, hot, humid, cold, more...

Phrases:

this afternoon, late afternoon, good afternoon, yesterday afternoon, afternoon tea, more...

Adjectives:

late, early, next, good, same, hot, whole, very, sunny, long, previous

Colors:

amber, coral, peach, tangerine, honey, more...

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