midafternoon
noun
midafternoon is a noun meaning “The middle of the afternoon, normally between 2 and 4 pm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-D-A-F-T-E-R-N-O-O-N and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of midafternoon is midafternoons.
What does midafternoon mean?
noun
- 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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce midafternoon?
Midafternoon has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of midafternoon
- midafternoons plural
- mid-afternoon
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is midafternoon?
Midafternoon appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Midafternoon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense middle of the afternoon:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Nachmittagsmitte, Mitte des Nachmittags |
| Spanish | media tarde |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does midafternoon come from?
From Middle English mid-afternon, myd-afternon, equivalent to mid- + afternoon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).