Foreglow
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Foreglow is a noun meaning The glow of light appearing in the sky preceding sunrise.
Meaning
The glow of light appearing in the sky preceding sunrise.
Example Sentences
Little attention has been paid to foreglows compared with afterglows, either with regard to their natural beauty or their weather forecasting.
He promised fair things and, when another morning came, set forth in the first rosy foreglow of dawn through a dew-soaked world to his new work.
But glorious, and educating, and inspiring as is the sunrise in itself in many cases, there is occasionally something very remarkable that is connected with it. Rare is it, but how charming when, witnessed, though till very' recently it was all but unexplained. This is the foreglow. It is in no respects so splendid as the afterglows succeeding sunset; but because of its rarity, its beauty is enhanced.
Word Forms
- foreglows
- fore-glow
- fore glow
Antonyms for foreglow
Common opposites include afterglow.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forelight, foredawn, foreshine, afterglow, predawn, foregleam.
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