AFTERNOON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conventional expression of greeting or farewell

Synonyms:

afternoon; good afternoon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("afternoon" is a kind of...):

farewell; word of farewell (an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting)

greeting; salutation ((usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The part of the day between noon and evening

Example:

he spent a quiet afternoon in the park

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("afternoon" is a kind of...):

day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)

Meronyms (parts of "afternoon"):

midafternoon (the middle part of the afternoon)

Credits

Context examples:

After dinner on the fourth night, the participants fasted until the next afternoon.

(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)

Feeding peaks occur in the early morning and late afternoon, and there are several daily periods of rest.

(Horse, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A question about an individual's activity of lying down to rest in the afternoon when circumstances permit.

(Lying Down for Afternoon Rest when Circumstances Permit, NCI Thesaurus)

These thoughts calmed me, and in the afternoon I sank into a profound sleep; but the fever of my blood did not allow me to be visited by peaceful dreams.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet it was afternoon before they came to the great wall that surrounded the City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

All three events took place in the late afternoon on Bennu.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

The shadow cast by the rock in mid-afternoon sunlight reveals it is about 20 feet (6 meters) tall.

(Tall boulder rolls down martian hill, lands upright, NASA)

No, she said, he had come home in the afternoon but had gone up to the hall to dine and pass the evening with the squire.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Fortunately, there is one man in England who knows all about it, and I have made arrangements by which we shall hear the facts this afternoon from his own lips.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The afternoon was not very advanced, for all that had befallen him.