afterglow

1. 1.

   a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset

   Broaderatmospheric phenomenon
2. 2.

   the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event

   “he basked in the afterglow of his victory”

   Broaderpleasantness

Other forms of afterglow

plural

afterglows·

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.

Questions about afterglow

What does afterglow mean?

afterglow means "a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in afterglow?

afterglow has 3 syllables: af-ter-glow. The stress falls on "af". In IPA it is /ˈæftɚˌɡloʊ/.

Is afterglow a common word?

afterglow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with afterglow?

2 words rhyme with afterglow. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.