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say it: AF-tur-gloh
afterglow is a noun meaning "a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset". It is pronounced /ˈæftɚˌɡloʊ/ — AF-tur-gloh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset
the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event
“he basked in the afterglow of his victory”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for afterglow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.