afternoon

Significat

Noun

1. The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
2. The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.
3. (informal) A party or social event held in the afternoon.

Adv

In the afternoon.

Intj

Ellipsis of good afternoon.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˌɑːf.tə.ˈnuːn/

Etimologia

From Middle English afternone, after-non, equivalent to after- + noon.

Sents

Shall we watch a film at the cinema this afternoon ?

One afternoon , they passed by the encampment of one of the tribes .