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Definitions: Aflame |
AflameAdjective1. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire". 2. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire". 3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aflame" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Note: Aflame \A*flame"\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- flame.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AflameSynonyms: ablaze (adj), ablaze(p) (adj), afire(p) (adj), aflame(p) (adj), aflare(p) (adj), alight(p) (adj), aroused (adj), blazing (adj), burning (adj), crimson (adj), flaming (adj), flushed (adj), on fire(p) (adj), red (adj), reddened (adj), red-faced (adj), turned on(p) (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Aflame |
| English words defined with "aflame": ablaze, aroused ♦ flame ♦ set aflame ♦ turned on. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aflame": Yesterday. (references) |
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Lyrics | Aflame with such a burning desire ("That Old Black Magic"; performing artist: Louis Prima & Keely Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Youth Aflame (1944) Nation Aflame (1937) Souls Aflame (1928) Aflame in the Sky (1927) Hearts Aflame (1923) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Halftone reproduction, copyrighted in 1906 by G.S. Richardson, depicting the USS Merrimack aflame during the burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, 20 April 1861.Credit: NAVY. |
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 | Fireball; meteor; fiery; ablaze; afire; aflame; alight; blazing; burning; conflagrant; flaming; flaring; ignited; lighted; afire; fire. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt his cheeks aflame and his throat throbbing with song. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak Of middle life and look adown the bleak And unfamiliar foreslope to the West, Where solemn shadows all the land invest And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest. Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame To stay the shadow on the dial's face At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name I chide aloud the little interspace Disparting me from Certitude, and fain Would know the dream and vision ne'er again. Baruch Arnegriff It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was attended at different times by seven doctors. |
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| "Aflame" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aflame" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aflame": set aflame ♦ set smth. aflame. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
aflame | 9 |
aflame word | 9 |
aflame press word | 4 |
aflame publication word | 3 |
aflame christian forum youth | 2 |
aflame rhine | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "aflame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në flakë (ablaze, alight, flaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملتهبا, ملتهب (ablaze, blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, red-hot, vehement), متقد (ablaze, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), مشتعل نارا, مشتعل (ablaze, afire, alight, be alight, blazing, burner, burning, conflagrant, flaring, in flames, on fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | в пламъци (on fire), пламтящ (blazing, fiery, flaming, lurid), пламнал (ablaze, afire, aglow, blazing, glowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 火熊熊. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | v plamenech. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vurig (ablaze, afire, aglow, ardent, full of zeal, lively, vivacious, zealous), verzendend (ablaze, afire, aglow, ardent), verterend (ablaze, afire, aglow, ardent), gloeiend (ablaze, afire, aglow, ardent, hot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مشتعل (Ablaze, Blazing), شعله ور (Afire, Alight, Garish, Inflammable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulessa (afire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ardant (afire), en flammes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | in flammen (ablaze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φλεγόμενοσ (ablaze, afire, flaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בל"בות "אש, בל"ב". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lángoló (ablaze, afire, aglow, alight, blazing, flaming, flamy, flaring, lurid, red-hot), lángba borulva (afire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terbakar (ablaze, afire, burned down, on fire), menyala (ablaze, afire, blaze, burning), kemerah-merahan (red disk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ardente (ablaze, afire, aglow, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, fervent, fierce, fiery, hot, live, passionate, weather helm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lostey (ablaze, alight, alight set, burn, burn away, burn up, combustion, cremate, cremation, deflagration, fire, fire away, fire-raising, incinerate), lossey (ablaze, afire, blaze, blush, burning, flame, flame up, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aflameay ardente (ablaze, afire, aglow, 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), a arder (alighting, astir), em chamas (afire, alight, blazing). (various references) aprins (ablaze, aglow, 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), în flãcãri (ablaze, afire, aglow, fiery, flaming, in a blaze, inflamed, lurid). (various references) в огне (ablaze, afire). (various references) zapaljen (alight, inflamed), u vatri (alight). (various references) ardiente (ablaze, afire, ardent, boiling hot, burning, fervent, fervid, fiery, gloweringly, glowing, hot, incandescent, lurid, passionate, perfervid, scorching, warm), inflamado (ablaze, angry, inflamed, inflammatory, sore, swollen). (various references) i brand (afire). (various references) alevler içindeki (afire), alevler içinde, alev alev (ablaze, afire), yanan (ablaze, afire, alight, blazing, burning, flaming), tutuşmuş (afire, alight, on fire). (various references) у вогні (ablaze, afire, alight, alow), охоплений полум'ям (afire), палаючий (ablaze, ardent, burning, fervid, flagrant, flaming, glowing, lurid). (various references) ar da+n (ablaze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Aflame" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Affane, alame, Alcama, Allama, Allami, alome, Atlam, efame, Falana. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aflame" (pronounced uflā"m) |
| 4 | -f l ā" m | flame, inflame. |
| 3 | -l ā" m | acclaim, blame, claim, declaim, disclaim, exclaim, lame, proclaim, reclaim. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-l-m" | |
-1 letter: flame, fleam. | |
-2 letters: alae, alef, alfa, alma, alme, fame, feal, flam, flea, lama, lame, leaf, male, meal. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ale, ama, elf, elm, emf, fem, lam, lea, mae, mel. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, al, am, ef, el, em, fa, la, ma, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-l-m" | |
+2 letters: farmable, flambeau, flatmate, foamable, framable, meatloaf. | |
+3 letters: flambeaus, flambeaux, flammable, flatmates, frameable. | |
+4 letters: affirmable, antifemale, camouflage, fathomable, flammables, formalwear, fragmental, malefactor, megafaunal. | |
+5 letters: camouflaged, camouflages, familiarise, familiarize, filamentary, firmamental, flamboyance, fundamental, inflammable, malefaction, malefactors, malfeasance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 6C 61 6D 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. .-.. .- -- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f l a m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 006C 0061 006D 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357278677971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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