Noun

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Any period of 24 hours.

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A period from midnight to the following midnight.

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(lb) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).

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The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.

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, title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients] , passage=“

Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams,

A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.

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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.

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*:If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day , at least they did not have less.

A period of contention of a day or less.

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Noun

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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).

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, 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= 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.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=3 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.}}

* 1966 , (The Kinks) - (Sunny Afternoon)

And I love to live so pleasantly / Live this life of luxury / Lazing on a sunny afternoon  / In the summertime