glow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡləʊ/
ipa: /ɡloʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: glows
Etymology: From Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-West Germanic *glōan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa, Finnish loistaa. See also glass.
Senses: examples: text: Thus all that Art and Con had to do, when the night was favourable, was to advance a little way along the avenue, until they reached the place whence the light, if it was burning, must be visible, as a glow, a feeble glow, in the air, and thence to go on, towards the back door, or to go back, towards the gate, as the case might be.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
ref: 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
glosses: The light given off by a glowing object.
glosses: The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
examples: text: He had a bright red glow on his face.
text: O, not for thee the glow, the bloom,
⁠Who changest not in any gale,
⁠Nor branding summer suns avail
To touch thy thousand years of gloom: […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from glow (noun)
word: afterglow
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word: aglow
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word: airglow
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word: Asian glow
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word: aspenglow
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word: candleglow
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word: counterglow
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word: Day-Glo
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word: dayglow
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word: electroglow
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word: foreglow
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word: glowboy
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word: glow discharge
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word: glow-down
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word: glow fly
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word: glowlamp
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word: glow-lamp
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word: glowless
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word: glowlight
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word: glow party
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word: glow plug
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word: glowpost
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word: glowsome
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word: glow starter
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word: glow stick
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word: glowstone
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word: glow-up
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word: glowworm
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word: glowy
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word: golden glow
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word: moonglow
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word: neon glow lamp
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word: nightglow
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word: overglow
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word: photoglow
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word: reglow
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word: skyglow
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word: sunglow
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word: underglow
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word: wonderglow