afternoons

[ af-ter-noonz, ahf- ]

adverb

1. in or during any or every afternoon:

   He slept late and worked afternoons.

afternoons

/ ˌɑːftəˈnuːnz /

adverb

1. informal.
   during the afternoon, esp regularly

Word History and Origins

Origin of afternoons¹

1895–1900, Americanism; afternoon + -s 1

Example Sentences

In the second season she spends afternoons rehearsing for a musical and buying an unlicensed gun for her clone friend.

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I spend my afternoons reading and exercising or going for walks.

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He had sex with hustlers in the afternoons, he said, so he could concentrate on conversation with friends in the evening.

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I could still see those afternoons in the Manchester TV studios when I was a kid with a camera.

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But in the next instant, all the other timepieces ticked on into the first of the sunny afternoons the boy will never see.

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There were few afternoons when a ring of spectators did not surround the table, breathlessly watching the champions.

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Somebody will give more, of course, for this fine tea gown to put on hot afternoons.

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The men were called into the different regiments mornings, noons and afternoons, until I wondered if it would ever stop.

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On several afternoons we made further trips to the deep woods after wild-flower plants, and set them in along our brook.

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But Kreps studied her mornings and afternoons and into the night, and day after day it went on, and she bothered him.

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