afternoon

noun

af·ter·noon ˌaf-tər-ˈnün

Synonyms of afternoon next

: the part of day between noon and sunset

: a relatively late period (as of time or life)

in the afternoon of the 19th century

afternoon adjective

Examples of afternoon in a Sentence

morning, afternoon, evening, and night I'll see you again tomorrow afternoon. It was early afternoon when I left. She spent the afternoon at the library. I remember the many rainy afternoons I spent reading at the library. She doesn't have class on Friday afternoons. It took us all afternoon to get there. It's going to be a long afternoon listening to lectures.

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Shearer concluded her Instagram Stories on Monday afternoon by including an image of her feet on the hospital bed. —

Charna Flam, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025 Three juveniles were arrested in connection with an armed carjacking in New Haven on Monday afternoon, leading to a police pursuit that ended in a crash off of Interstate 91. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025 The director of the National Head Start Association said their grant recipients also weren’t able to receive reimbursements on Tuesday — although their service was restored shortly after an afternoon guidance from the Trump administration specified that Head Start is exempted from the order. —

Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 28 Jan. 2025 Homan, who is returning as border czar under Trump after serving as ICE’s acting director during the first Trump administration from 2017 to 2018, responded swiftly on Fox News on Monday afternoon as the hundreds of arrests and raids continued across the country. —

Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for afternoon