As the title says. My daughter and I were having a conversation earlier, and she asked me to order something from Amazon; I was busy so I told her “please remind me this afternoon”. She responded by telling me it is already afternoon (it was 12:10pm). So this made me start to think about times of day and if there is a standard, so I googled it and that was useless because it was kind of all over the place or not specific enough… no real standard definition that I could find.
I would like to preface this by saying this is how I personally reference the different “time periods” throughout the day, it has nothing to do with any proper definitions or scientific research, this is just how I, myself, will reference the different time periods throughout the day :)
So I’m thinking maybe everyone kinda has their own personal “range” they use for specific times of the day? Anyway, I thought it would be fun to see what hours everyone else uses/considers to be morning/noon/afternoon/evening/night/early morning etc or whatever … so here’s mine:
Ok, so to me… (and this is just how I personally define the times of day, when I’m speaking about morning/noon/night etc) goes kind of like this:
morning is like 5am-12pm noon, noon is like 11am-1pm, afternoon is anytime between 1-5pm, evening is between 5-9pm, nighttime is after 9pm til like 2am, then it’s early morning from like 2-5am. So, for example, if it’s like 11am, and I ask my daughter “will you please remind me this afternoon”, I usually mean sometime between 1-3pm, but if I say “will you please remind me later this afternoon” that usually means anytime between 3-5ish pm.
am I psycho? Or does everyone have like a set period of time (in hours) that they kind of use to describe the times of day?
TLDR: What hours of the day do you consider when referencing the different time periods throughout a 24 hour period? For example: Morning/Noon/Afternoon/Evening/Night/Late Night/Early Morning
What time is "afternoon" and when is "evening" ?
What period of the day do you consider to be “evening”?
late afternoon or late evening?
late afternoon, late evening ?? Plz help me
1)
Late /morning, afternoon, evening, midnight.
late/today, tomorrow.
I don't understand the above meanings.
2)
could u tell me what the meaning is ?
Could you tell mw what the meanings are?
What is the meaning of the words
what are the meaning of the words
which one is correct?
Thx^^
Is 6 p.m. evening or afternoon?
Is 4 p.m. evening or afternoon?
Is 5 p.m. evening or afternoon?
And does it change throughout the year?
I ran into this problem when I started teaching composition to Chinese students: they kept using evening as if it were afternoon, and I kept telling them they were wrong. The next semester I looked it up and this is what I found for "evening" in Merriam-Webster 3rd international:
- a) the latter part and close of the day and early part of darkness or night
- b) chiefly South & Midland : the time extending roughly from noon to twilight : afternoon; "It was about 3 o'clock in the evening."
- c) the part of the day from noon to midnight — used in the Bible
- d) the period from sunset or from the evening meal to bedtime
So they were sort of right; though I still reject noon to midnight since we aren't living in Biblical times, and also the argot of the "south and midland" (where is that?), which has evening but no afternoon.
But no matter how you cut it, evening means the early part of the night; this is why we say good evening as a greeting. Night is not just night, it is later than evening, hence good night is a farewell.
After looking up lots of stuff, I also thoroughly convinced myself that twilight is definitely a part of evening for many many people, even though I had rejected the idea before. Try checking out song lyrics. Result: big loss of face (I had to tell them). Teachers, be cautious of overconfidence!
"Evening" is very frequently used to mean "night", perhaps most notably in the greeting "good evening". This is probably because the phrase "good night" is an unambiguous dismissal, and cannot be used as a greeting.
What is early evening? How late can I push it? I need to be somewhere and I was told to arrive late afternoon/early evening. I need to push it as late as possible though. What is the latest that I should arrive where it would still be considered early evening?