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afternoons
[ af-ter-noonz, ahf- ]
/ ˌæf tərˈnunz, ˌɑf- /
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adverb
in or during any or every afternoon: He slept late and worked afternoons. QUIZ
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Origin of afternoons
1895–1900,
Americanism;
afternoon + -s
1Words nearby afternoons
after mast,
aftermath,
aftermost,
afternoon,
afternooner,
afternoons,
afternoon watch,
after one's own heart,
afterpain,
afterpains,
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Words related to afternoons
How to use afternoons in a sentence
In the second season she spends afternoons rehearsing for a musical and buying an unlicensed gun for her clone friend.
I spend my afternoons reading and exercising or going for walks.
He had sex with hustlers in the afternoons, he said, so he could concentrate on conversation with friends in the evening.
I could still see those afternoons in the Manchester TV studios when I was a kid with a camera.
But in the next instant, all the other timepieces ticked on into the first of the sunny afternoons the boy will never see.
There were few afternoons when a ring of spectators did not surround the table, breathlessly watching the champions.
Somebody will give more, of course, for this fine tea gown to put on hot afternoons.
The men were called into the different regiments mornings, noons and afternoons, until I wondered if it would ever stop.
On several afternoons we made further trips to the deep woods after wild-flower plants, and set them in along our brook.
But Kreps studied her mornings and afternoons and into the night, and day after day it went on, and she bothered him.
British Dictionary definitions for afternoons
adverb
informal during the afternoon, esp regularly
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