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In other projects Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wiktionary, the free dictionary See also: mid-afternoon

English

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Alternative forms

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• mid-afternoon

Etymology

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From Middle English mid-afternon, myd-afternon, equivalent to mid- +‎ afternoon.

Noun

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midafternoon (countable and uncountable, plural midafternoons)

1. The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm. I'll be busy until midafternoon, but you can try my office around 3.
   • 1989 September 12, Daniel Goleman, “Feeling Sleepy? An Urge to Nap Is Built In”, in The New York Times‎[1]:THE human body was meant to have a midafternoon nap, according to a new consensus among sleep researchers who are studying the biological rhythms of sleep and alertness.

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• none (obsolete)

Translations

[edit] middle of the afternoon

Catalan: mitja tarda f Crimean Tatar: ekindi Finnish: iltapäivän puoliväli German: Nachmittagsmitte f (rare), Mitte des Nachmittags f Hungarian: középdélután Irish: ardtráthnóna m Romanian: mijlocul după-amiezii n Spanish: media tarde f (from around 3 to around 6) Turkish: ikindi (tr) Welsh: canol prynhawn m

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