AGLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aglow mean? 

• AGLOW (adjective)
  The adjective AGLOW has 1 sense:

1. softly bright or radiant

  Familiarity information: AGLOW used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGLOW (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Softly bright or radiant

Synonyms:

aglow; lambent; lucent; luminous

Context example:

a sky luminous with stars

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

You have been hosting Saturn and Pluto in your home sector for years, and last December, Jupiter, the lucky planet, joined them there and began to set your house of residence aglow.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was aglow with light, as the sea itself, and the eyes were flashing in the starshine.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This mood or condition begins some half hour or more before actual sunrise or sunset, and lasts till either the sun is high, or whilst the clouds are still aglow with the rays streaming above the horizon.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)