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afternoon English

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What does afternoon mean?
Definitions in simple English

afternoon

The time after 12:00 (after noon, after lunch) and before the evening meal. I didn't finish that work in the morning, so I had to do it in the afternoon.

afternoon

the part of the day between noon and evening he spent a quiet afternoon in the park (= good afternoon) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell

Synonyms afternoon synonyms

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Topics afternoon topics

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Simple sentences

Let's have a swim in the afternoon.
I do not think it will rain this afternoon.
I have rather a busy afternoon in front of me.
The weather report says it will rain tomorrow afternoon.
He will come this afternoon.
She spent all afternoon cooking.
If you are going to the library this afternoon, would you please return two books for me whilst you are there?
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon. You are our new neighbor, if I'm not mistaken?
Good afternoon. Excuse me, I'm looking for the Loreta.
Tom went out for a walk as he always does in the afternoon.
I think it won't rain this afternoon.
I spent the whole afternoon chatting with friends.
Are you free on Friday afternoon?
The meeting began at five in the afternoon.
The meeting ended at three in the afternoon.
The meeting will be held this afternoon.
Perhaps it will rain in the afternoon.
See you at two this afternoon.
It began late one Sunday afternoon, deep in the woods.
See to it that the letter is posted this afternoon.
The game starts at two tomorrow afternoon.
It took her all afternoon to finish the work.
This lady witnessed an accident at three o'clock this afternoon.
I want this work completed by two o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
It has been raining since the day before yesterday, but it may clear up this afternoon.
It was a very pleasant afternoon.
Come on Monday afternoon, if possible.
John asked Mary whether she would like to go shopping in the afternoon.
Did you have a good time this afternoon?
We will have an English test this afternoon.

Movie subtitles

It was 4:00 in the afternoon.
May I be so bold as to inquire your availability and whereabouts tomorrow afternoon?
Won't be able to meet me until this afternoon.
Last night? You mean this afternoon?
Afternoon, ladies, come on in.
I've been having them on and off all afternoon.
I was here with Kaiser all afternoon.
Good afternoon, Mr. Shepherd.
Afternoon, ladies. Might I interest you in some of our new specials at Abigail's Cafe?
Afternoon.
It's about time we started serving afternoon tea at the sawmill! Yes.
Let me check the afternoon mail.
So, I'll sit with you for the rest of the afternoon until you get the hang of it, but honestly, it seems like you don't really need me.
Dear Countess, please, I beg you to keep your promess to meet tomorrow afternoon, in the usual place.
I saw Bahia this afternoon.
I'm in. And we get the whole afternoon off.
I'm canceling this afternoon's class. Would you inform my students?
I am coming to collect the tax in the afternoon.
That afternoon.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
Demoiselle. I have the honour and the pleasure to announce his majesty's visit this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
From his majesty the Czar, as a token of his supreme joy that he will be able to attend the congress this afternoon for the first time.
I've taken precautions for the whole afternoon.
Madame la contesse asks his majesty, the Czar, to come to tea, at 5 o'clock this afternoon.
Hmm, I think they'll have some more effect this afternoon.
Happy Alexander! If I weren't Metternich, I'd like to the Czar this afternoon.
They're in the afternoon.
They kidnapped him from the hospital this afternoon.
So, anyway, my cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister is gonna be bringing some by this afternoon, and I know it sounds a little stupid, but I'm kind of nervous to pick them up myself.
It must be afternoon recess-- Excuse me.
It must be afternoon recess today!
Good. afternoon.
In the afternoon, you have to go for a walk with the public at Namsan's pine wood trail.
Sunday afternoon.
The following afternoon. the first tenant arrived at the Rumforts.

News and current affairs

I recall that fateful Saturday afternoon with utter clarity, strolling through Kiev with my six-year-old daughter, oblivious to the danger.
Each session is like an afternoon tea party where representatives offer random reflections, praise the correctness of the leadership's reports and attempt to show how conscientiously they have studied them and how deeply they comprehend them.
The Lebanese government has volunteered to accept refugee children into the country's schools by introducing a second afternoon session and enlisting teachers and school directors to take on the extra workload.
In 1919, the economist John Maynard Keynes described the possibility of an Englishman in London using a telephone to order goods from around the world to be delivered to his house by the afternoon.
The particular afternoon was perfect, sunny and quiet, the room's semi-obscurity hospitable.
JERUSALEM - Every Friday afternoon for more than a year, hundreds of Israeli Jews have gathered on a dusty little square in the middle of Arab East Jerusalem.
This is why the Friday afternoon protests, however ineffectual in the short run, are essential.
NEW YORK - In the afternoon of July 16 two men appeared to be breaking into a fine house in an expensive area of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Indeed, on a weekday afternoon in the middle of summer, nearly 15 million Americans tuned in to the Brazil-Germany match in the semifinal.
On the Tuesday afternoon when the US played Belgium in the knockout round, every bar in Aspen, Colorado, was packed.
My father told me that he could not understand how anyone could enjoy an afternoon spent taking fish out of the water and letting them die slowly.
The backdrop was Prague, impossibly beautiful, impossibly romantic, the city of a hundred spires, tawny ochre houses and churches, shifting late afternoon light, moonlight on the Vltava.
He was savoring a rare moment of triumph when his party spokesman stopped by in the late afternoon of November 9.
KAMPALA - On a balmy afternoon, I met Dr. Gilbert Bukenya at his home on the shores of Lake Victoria, where we talked about the future of farming in Uganda.

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