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afterglow
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event; "he basked in the afterglow of his victory"
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Afterglow is the first box set compilation by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) released in 1990 with liner notes by music critic and editor Ira Robbins of Trouser Press fame. A different 2-CD compilation with identical artwork was released simultaneously ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ You could see the afterglow of the victory in his face. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Behind it an apricot afterglow trailed like an exquisite taillight across the sky. ▪ Even in Britain people noticed dazzling, lingering sunsets ...
Usage examples of afterglow.
The afterglow was dying on the walls, clashing nastily with all the curdled pinks in here.
In the afterglow, a white ghost came wheeling through the sky below, on two wide sails.
Beyond the five low points of the dead volcanoes on the black horizon, against the fading greenish afterglow, the New Moon was rising.
The dancers in the afterglow do not break rhythm, but do introduce a kind of bow into their prancing.
The man aims for that rapidly vanishing afterglow, alone on a darkly painted sea, a single, tiny figure chasing a sun that has already deserted him.
Most of the blood still had not returned to his brain, he had been enjoying the afterglow of one of the most erotic, sensual interludes in his life, and this impossible woman had to pick a fight with him, ruining the moment.
Jesus, what was it about this woman, who knew nothing about enjoying the afterglow, that caused him to have a boner ninety-five percent of the time he was in her company?
The clouds paled, turned rosy for a moment with the afterglow, then deepened into purple gloom.
The piece was original Garriston, composed in the afterglow of their recent lovemaking.
In accordance with Beklan custom some of the guests, in twos and threes, were beginning to get up and stroll out of the hall, either into the corridors or as far as the westward-facing portico of the palace, whence they could look out across the city walls towards the afterglow beyond the far-off Palteshi hills.
Through the windows opposite shone an afterglow sky of ochre and pale-green, and from somewhere just outside came the low cackle of birds settling to roost along a cornicemy-nahs or starlings.
Beneath it the city dropped away in walls, roofs, archaistic chimneys and lamplit streets, goblin lights of human-piloted vehicles, to the harbor, the sweep of Venture Bay, ships bound to and from the Sunward Islands and remoter regions of the Boreal Ocean, which glimmered like mercury in the afterglow of Charlemagne.
Brassy heat fretted curls in the vine leaves latched over its age-gritted stone while the hour subsided into afterglow.
Presently the four men on their hulking oasts passed in the afterglow above him, black double-shapes in attitudes suggestive of ill-temper and disappointment.
They descended the steep ridge to the gentler slopes below and made their way slowly along, skirting the dense thickets of pandanus and rata trees, and crossing glades where the interlaced foliage, high overhead, cut off the faint light of the afterglow, making the darkness below almost that of night.