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[ af-ter-noonz, ahf- ] / ˌæf tərˈnunz, ˌɑf- /
adverbin or during any or every afternoon: He slept late and worked afternoons. Origin of afternoons1895–1900, Americanism;afternoon + -s1 Words nearby afternoonsafter mast, aftermath, aftermost, afternoon, afternooner, afternoons, afternoon watch, after one's own heart, afterpain, afterpains, after-party Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for afternoonsIn the second season she spends afternoons rehearsing for a musical and buying an unlicensed gun for her clone friend. Why Should You Watch 'Orphan Black'? Tatiana Maslany.|Sujay Kumar|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST I spend my afternoons reading and exercising or going for walks. How I Write: Paul Lynch|Noah Charney|December 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST He had sex with hustlers in the afternoons, he said, so he could concentrate on conversation with friends in the evening. How Gay Was Gore Vidal?|Tim Teeman|July 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST I could still see those afternoons in the Manchester TV studios when I was a kid with a camera. Never Before Seen Beatles Photos From 1964|Leslie Woodhead|April 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But in the next instant, all the other timepieces ticked on into the first of the sunny afternoons the boy will never see. A Boston Child Is Cut Down by an Attacker’s Bomb|Michael Daly|April 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST For the afternoons there were various bull-fights and comedies. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898|Various He would not go to school in the afternoons, but spent the hours from two till five in drawing. Saxe Holm's Stories|Helen Hunt Jackson Ever since they had been at college the three girls had kept their engagement for vespers on Sunday afternoons. Molly Brown's Senior Days|Nell Speed There are some gray Sunday afternoons of a depressing effect on the spirit which requires no positive or palpable reason. Roman Holidays and Others|W. D. Howells Besides attending to his shop, he was accustomed to go out in the afternoons to dress the hair of four or five ladies. Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist|Samuel Smiles
British Dictionary definitions for afternoons
adverbinformal during the afternoon, esp regularly Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to afternoonssiesta, teatime, cocktail hour |