Thesaurus:afternoon
English
Noun
Sense: the part of the day from noon until sunset or evening
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Hypernyms
Meronyms
- afternoon tea (UK)
- foreday (dialect)
- midafternoon
- teatime (chiefly UK)
- undermeal (obsolete, UK)
- undertide (obsolete, UK)
Holonyms
Comeronyms
- early morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- dawn [⇒ thesaurus]
- first light
- postdawn
- morning [⇒ thesaurus]
- midday [⇒ thesaurus]
- evening [⇒ thesaurus]
- dusk [⇒ thesaurus]
- night
- midnight [⇒ thesaurus]
Further reading
- “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “afternoon” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.