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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
aglow
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The morning sun set the sky aglow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Floodlighting reflected from the silvery burnt umber cladding of the walls as though ice-ghosts danced there, and set the green columns aglow.
▪ Her secret was kept, her secret, which made her feel aglow inside.
▪ I rejoined the group and we were all tingling and aglow with the experience.
▪ It was not quite dark yet and the evening sky on the high tops was still aglow with delicate pastel shades.
▪ Jewel-tipped stalactites hung from the cavern roof, aglow like many little lamps.
▪ She sat up in the bed, dumbstruck, her face aglow as if lit from the inside.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aglow

Aglow \A*glow"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + glow.] In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
aglow

1817 (in Coleridge), from a- (1) + glow. Figurative sense of "flushed with pleasurable excitement" is from 1830.

Wiktionary
aglow

a. glowing; radiant

WordNet
aglow

adj. softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights"; "glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: aglow(p), glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous]

Usage examples of "aglow".

The other two aborigines, their luminous eyes aglow, drew their own axes from the back-sheaths and slipped away.

When the autobahn went into an overpass he could look down to the right and see it stretching away into the December night, thousands of hectares of lights and mills, aglow from a thousand furnaces churning out the wealth of the economic miracle.

The natatorium was aglow, its light reflecting from the listless waves that washed up the gentle slope of beach.

They were high enough to see over the top of the low, grass-topped dunes, with an unobstructed view of the natatorium aglow on the edge of the sea.

At this late hour, the town of Nota Lake was deserted, stores locked for the night with only an occasional cold interior light aglow.

Cormatin, aglow with satisfaction at the excellent prospects of his pacificatory schemes, moved smiling and genial, his portliness tight in a grey frock, with a high stiff collar about his white cravat, a white sash girding his middle, white plumes to his hat, the Sacred Heart on his breast, and a chaplet threaded through his buttonhole.

Then a steadier fall, gently swirling, touching down, lifting up, touching down again, until the little square, or campo, outside the steamy window of the Gambero Rosso is aglow with a dusting of the purest white.

He had stood for a moment in the radiant little square in front of the Gambero Rosso, one of those enchanting and forsaken places which lie in the interior of Venice as though within a secret fold, accessible only to intimates, his own interior aglow still from the generous infusions, thinking how right he had been to come back here!

And wavelessly, in the deep silence, Three banners hung peaceful and low -- They bore the bright blue of the heavens, They wore the pure white of the snow And beneath them fair children were kneeling, Whose faces, with graces aglow, Seemed sinless, in land that is sinful, And woeless, in life full of woe.

The trees were giants, rising branchless to far above their heads, the trunks aglow with moss.

He saw them standing over him in the dark as he slept, their bristly claws moving, their great beaks clacking, their huge gleaming eyes aglow with malevolence.

Eyes aglow we watched and listened, hungering to drink deep if only he would make the smallest misstep, the flimsiest missaying to give himself into our power.

I wrapped my sodden cloak around me and thought about the warm security of the scriptorium aglow in the ruddy blaze of a peat fire.

Norine, barely nineteen, was a pretty girl, a blonde like her sister, but having a milky skin, and withal plump and sturdy, showing real shoulders, arms, and hips, and one of those bright sunshiny faces, with wild hair and black eyes, all the freshness of the Parisian hussy, aglow with the fleeting charm of youth.

Archontophoenix and Livistona palms, and the giant Alsophila ferns-Cooperi and australis-and the promontories stood with their shaggy westringias and hibbertias and hardenbergias and white button-flowers all aglow, staring, staring, staring out over the blue lazy ocean, and casting blue and purple shadows across the yellow sand of the beach, even reaching to the masses of white foam that were swept ashore, when the little breakers were dashed to pieces, the enemy was seen on the top, above the dark wall of ironstone, right out on the edge, waving spears, and he was heard shouting to the family of Arrilla down on the beach.