afternoon

1. afternoon (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.

Example: Theſe men ſerue God in the forenoone, and the diuell in the after noone;

2. afternoon (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The later part of anything, often with implications of decline.

Example: Buck.[…]Theſe both put by a poore petitioner
A care-crazd mother of a many children,
A beauty-waining and diſtreſſed widow,
Euen in the afternoone of her beſt daies
Made priſe and purchaſe of his luſtfull eye,
Seduc t the pitch and height of al his thoughts,
To baſe declenſion and loathd bigamie,
By her in his vnlawfull bed he got.

3. afternoon (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A party or social event held in the afternoon.

4. afternoon (adv) — sense 4

Definition: In the afternoon.

Example: I stayd at home till noone, and recᵈ of Crowders for 3 loods of shilling 2l. 8s.; and afternoone I went with my wife to Wakefeild, where by yᵉ way I spent at Toppitt 8d., and wee lay at Jackson’s all night.