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 →

2) «Good afternoon» is a greeting used in the afternoon. tree →

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 →
• In the afternoon, 9 more birds came. tree →
• He read 12 pages in the afternoon. tree →
• How many more did she pick in the morning than in the afternoon? tree →
• Good afternoon, class! tree →
• We have art on Friday afternoons. tree →
• It is hottest in the early afternoon. tree →
• 3 p.m. is in the afternoon. tree →
• Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon. tree →

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.
• And «we» start «this afternoon».
• On the third afternoon they come out on their first high-road.
• «It was a golden afternoon.
• "xiàwǔ" means afternoon, literally "after noon"; shàngwǔ, "before noon", is the late morning.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «afternoon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.