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Definition: Aglow |
AglowAdjective1. Softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aglow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Aglow \A*glow"\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- glow.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AglowSynonyms: aglow(p) (adj), glowing (adj), lambent (adj), lucent (adj), luminous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heat | Adjective: hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aglow |
| English words defined with "aglow": glowing ♦ lambent, lucent, luminous. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My mind is aglow with whirling transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of intervention. (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger) | |
Lyrics | I gazed at the grotto aglow in the light ("The Village Of St. Bernadette"; performing artist: Andy Williams) For a moment the world was aglow, all the bells rang out ("Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord"; performing artist: Boney M) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Billy Graham | Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out. |
Virgil | All aglow is the work. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Aglow" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aglow" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "aglow": be aglow. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aglow | 28 |
aglow international | 13 |
aglow womens | 12 |
aglow woman | 10 |
aglow international womens | 3 |
aglow womans | 2 |
aglow center christian hope | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aglow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ndezur, i ndezur (ablaze, alight, bright, flamboyant, flame, glaring, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, lively, noisy, on fire, vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متقد (ablaze, aflame, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), متوهج (ardent, blazing, fervent, flamboyant, flame, flash, garish, glowing, incandescent, live, lurid, radiant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разгорещен (heated, red-hot, warm), горещ (burning, devout, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, high-spirited, hot, intense, scorching, strong, thermal, torrid), възбуден (aflutter, agog, effervescent, excited, fevered, hectic, hot, impassioned, overwrought, tremulous, tumultuous, wrought up), пламнал (ablaze, afire, aflame, blazing, glowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | planoucí (blazing, burning, flaming, flamy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vurig (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent, full of zeal, lively, vivacious, zealous), verzendend (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent), verterend (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent), gloeiend (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent, hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مشتعل وفروزان , تابان (Agleam, Bright, Brilliant, Hot, Light, Luminous, Perfervid, Shiner), درحالت هیجان , درحال اشتعال . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ardant, rayonnant (agleam), embrasé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glühend (ardent, blazing, blistering, broiling, burning, consuming, fervent, fiery, flaming, flushed, gloweringly, glowing, incandescent, live, red-hot, torrid, torridly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φωτοβόλοσ (luciferous, luminescent), φλογερόσ (ardent, fiery, flaming, glowing, inflammatory, lurid, passionate, red-hot), λάμπων (ablaze, alight, effulgent, incandescent, lucent, refulgent, shiny, spangly, sparkling, splendent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לו"ט (burning, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, incandescent, torrid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lángoló (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, blazing, flaming, flamy, flaring, lurid, red-hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyinari (irradiate), bernyala (ablaze, deflagrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, fervent, fierce, fiery, hot, live, passionate, weather helm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lossanagh (auroral, blazing, bright, flaming, flaring, genial, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, phosphorescent, varnish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agloway ardente (ablaze, afire, aflame, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), afogueado, vermelho (blushing, claret, gulf, high-coloured, high-end, judas-colored, judas-coloured, purple, red, rouge, rubicund, ruddy, rust, unglazed scale), inflamado (ablaze, exam, fiery, high-level professional, highway, inflamed, inflammatory, sore). (various references) aprins (ablaze, aflame, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), roşu (ablush, blood red, blushing, carroty, color, colour, copper-colored, copper-coloured, florid, fox-colored, fox-coloured, foxy, hearts, incarnadine, lurid, red, red-cheeked, rouge, scarlet, Sorrel), în flãcãri (ablaze, afire, aflame, fiery, flaming, in a blaze, inflamed, lurid). (various references) ярко горя, возбужденный (ablaze, agitated, agog, astir, excited, exhilarating, feverish, heated, hectic, het up, narked, overwrought, revved up), пылая. (various references) zarumenjen, zažaren, u plamenu (ablaze, afire, fire: on fire). (various references) encendido (ablaze, afire, alight, fired, firing, flaming, flaring, glowing, ignition, lighted, lighting, live, on, switching on, turn on). (various references) glödande (burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, incandescent, live, perfervid, white hot). (various references) ateşli (ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, mettlesome, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous), parlayan (ardent, fiery, lambent, shining, sparkling), parlak (ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), kıpkırmızı (bright red, crimson, fiery, ruddy), heyecanlı (agitated, agog, astir, crazed, declamatory, dramatic, emotional, excitable, excited, exciting, febrile, feverish, glowing, gone, gripping, happy, heated, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a lather, inspired, nail biting, rhapsodic, rhapsodical, spirited, stormy, thrilling, tiptoe, vibrant, warm, wrought up, zealous), hararetli (aboil, burning, dithyrambic, excited, fervent, fevered, glowing, heated, in a glow, perfervid, roaring, sulphurous, sultry, vehement, warm). (various references) яскраво (bright, brightly, gaily), палаючи. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Aglow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aflow, agli, aglio, aglowe, agow, agrow, Amlow, Arlo, Bagelow, daglo, edlow, eglo, galow, ganow, waglow, Zagalo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aglow" (pronounced uglō") |
| 3 | -g l ō" | glow. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-w" | |
-1 letter: alow, awol, gaol, glow, goal. | |
-2 letters: ago, awl, gal, goa, lag, law, log, low, owl, wag, wog. | |
-3 letters: ag, al, aw, go, la, lo, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-w" | |
+1 letter: logway, sawlog. | |
+2 letters: airglow, dayglow, flowage, gallows, logways, sawlogs. | |
+3 letters: agalwood, airglows, allowing, bungalow, dayglows, flowages, gangplow, goalward, growable, longways, waterlog. | |
+4 letters: afterglow, agalwoods, alpenglow, angleworm, bungalows, fallowing, flowerage, gallowses, gangplows, glasswork, glasswort, hallowing, outlawing, sallowing, tallowing, walloping, wallowing, waterlogs. | |
+5 letters: afterglows, alpenglows, angleworms, batfowling, flowerages, glassworks, glassworts, landowning, longbowman, loungewear, lowballing, outbawling, outwalking, shallowing, swallowing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 6C 6F 77 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .-.. --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01101100 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g l o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 006C 006F 0077 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3573788189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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