AFTERGLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afterglow mean? 

• AFTERGLOW (noun)
  The noun AFTERGLOW has 2 senses:

1. a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset

2. the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event

  Familiarity information: AFTERGLOW used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFTERGLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("afterglow" is a kind of...):

atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The pleasure of remembering some pleasant event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

he basked in the afterglow of his victory

Hypernyms ("afterglow" is a kind of...):

pleasantness (the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)

 Context examples 

Over time, material hurled out by the jet slows and widens as it sweeps up and heats interstellar material, producing so-called afterglow emission that includes X-rays.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)