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arvo^¹

/ˈɐː.vəʉ/ Australia
/ˈɑː(ɹ).vəʊ/ UK

Rhymes with -ɑːvəʊ

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Clipping of afternoon + -o (“colloquialising suffix”).

noun arvos · arvy

Australia, New Zealand, informal Afternoon. “Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.”
Similar: afternoon

ARVO^²

proper noun

abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

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noun afternoon

Português	tardinha
Français	aprèm
Deutsch	Nachmittag

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@misc{arvo_2026,
  title = {arvo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/arvo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}