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# afternoon

«afternoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **the part of the day after midday (12 o'clock) and before…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (afternoon, afternoons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The afternoon is the part of the day after midday (12 o'clock) and before evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#m1)

2) «Good afternoon» is a greeting used in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a time of day that splits a story into parts, often morning and afternoon amounts to be added or compared; times in the afternoon are written p.m.; phrases: «in the afternoon», «this afternoon», «on Saturday afternoon», «good afternoon»

### examples

- She sold 20 cakes in the morning and 15 in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x1)
- In the afternoon, 9 more birds came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x2)
- He read 12 pages in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x3)
- How many more did she pick in the morning than in the afternoon? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x4)
- Good afternoon, class! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x5)
- We have art on Friday afternoons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x6)
- It is hottest in the early afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x7)
- 3 p.m. is in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x8)
- Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/#x9)

### note

A time label, not a thing counted. Amounts in the morning and the afternoon are often added for the whole day. Trap: «how many more in the morning than in the afternoon» asks for a difference, not a sum. «in the afternoon» but «on Monday afternoon».

### In the corpora

- [In real life no animal got its shape in one afternoon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/2/)
- [And «we» start «this afternoon».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/8/)
- [On the third afternoon they come out on their first high-road.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/10/)
- [«It was a golden afternoon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/31-willows-ch2-part3-poop-poop/13/)
- ["xiàwǔ" means afternoon, literally "after noon"; shàngwǔ, "before noon", is the late morning.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/21-today-tomorrow-now-later/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «afternoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afternoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.