Arternoon vs Afternoon - What's the difference?
arternoon | afternoon |
* {{quote-book, year=1863, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=The Crater, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This oversight of the arternoon has made me somewhat conscientious, if I can be conscientious, and my sight and hearing are now both wide awake. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1883, author=George Bernard Shaw, title=An Unsocial Socialist, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Good arternoon , sir," said a man who, with a short whip in his hand, trudged beside the white horse that towed the barge. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1909, author=Louise Forsslund, title=Old Lady Number 31, chapter=, edition=
, passage=But, Blossy, yew better give me a chance ter talk to him this arternoon , an' mebbe I'll speak a good word fer yer." }} The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening; the part of the day following noon which is daylight all year round; the second half of the working day (in regular office hours).
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
* , chapter=23
, title= * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 * 1966 , (The Kinks) - (Sunny Afternoon)
As nouns the difference between arternoon and afternoon
is that arternoon is while afternoon is the part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening; the part of the day following noon which is daylight all year round; the second half of the working day (in regular office hours).arternoon
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afternoon
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Alternative forms
* afternoone (archaic)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
citation, passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.}}
- And I love to live so pleasantly / Live this life of luxury / Lazing on a sunny afternoon / In the summertime