Definition of Afternoons

1. Noun. (plural of afternoon) ¹

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Definition of Afternoons

1. afternoon [n] - See also: afternoon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Afternoons

afterloads
aftermarket
aftermarkets
aftermath
aftermaths
aftermentioned
aftermind
aftermost
aftermovement
afterness
afternoon
afternoon tea
afternoon teas
afternoone
afternoones
afternoons (current term)
afternote
afternotes
afterpain
afterpains
afterpart
afterparties
afterparty
afterpeak
afterpeaks
afterperception
afterpiece
afterpieces
afterpotential
afterpotentials

Literary usage of Afternoons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow, Henry Morley (1890)
"... save that Dr. Bull is dispensed with, to read the music lecture in English only upon two several days, Thursday and Saturday, in the afternoons, ..."

2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1904)
"DEPARTMENTAL SESSIONS The Departmental Sessions of the Convention were held on Thursday and Friday afternoons, at 2:30 o'clock, in the rooms of the First ..."

3. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"... afternoons IN WELLS AND BRISTOL EVEN the local guide-book, which is necessarily optimistic, owns that the railroad service between Bath and Wells leaves ..."

4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"To the office, and again all the afternoon, the first time of our resolution to sit both forenoons and afternoons. llth. My people to work about setting ..."

5. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1884)
"afternoons WITH CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH absorbed in party questions, even until the end, there was not imparted to the last scenes in Mr. Weed's life an aspect ..."

6. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1873)
"Workmen'« Clubs and Saturday afternoons, 26 m 8 6 Wrecks (continued). St. Colombia, off Skerries Island, 23 j 12 / —— Peace Conference in Glasgow, ..."

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