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afternoon

[af-ter-noon, ahf-, af-ter-noon, ahf-, af-, ahf-] / ˌæf tərˈnun, ˌɑf-, ˈæf tərˈnun, ˈɑf-, ˌæf-, ˌɑf- /
NOUN
period after 12 noon and before sunset
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They included Good Afternoon and Afternoon Plus, the latter of which featured among other things the first TV appearances by Dame Mary Berry, who was then cookery editor of Home and Freezer Digest.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Catch of the Week, Catch of the Year, Catch of the Century, or Merely the Catch of the Early Afternoon, Please Calm Down…I’ll leave the formal classification to the headline writers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025

Afternoon at Moonlight Rollerway I love the Moonlight Rollerway, an amazing roller rink in Glendale.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Among his favourites were the works John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, but Forsyth adored Ernest Hemingway's book on bullfighters, Death in the Afternoon.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025

Afternoon sun played off the dull mahogany of its propeller.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck



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