good afternoon

1. 1.

   a conventional expression of greeting or farewell

   Synonymsafternoon

   Broadergreetingfarewell

Questions about good afternoon

What does good afternoon mean?

good afternoon means "a conventional expression of greeting or farewell".

What is another word for good afternoon?

Close synonyms include afternoon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is good afternoon a common word?

good afternoon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.