ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Glow

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ɡləʊ/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Glow is a verb meaning To emit heat and light without a flame.

Meaning

To emit heat and light without a flame.

Of a fire: to emit heat and light.
To emit light brightly and steadily as if heated to a high temperature; to shine.
To be very hot; also, to be on fire; to burn.
Of a colour: to be bright; also, of a thing: to have a bright colour.
Of a person: to display intense emotion.
To be involved in an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
Of a person's body or a part of it: to feel hot and often to flush (“become suffused with a reddish colour”) as well, due to an emotional response, exertion, etc.

The fire was still glowing after ten hours.

[N]ovv glovv'd the Firmament / VVith living Saphirs: […]

Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.

[T]he torrid Zone / Glovvs vvith the paſſing and repaſſing Sun.

Depending on context, synonyms include gleam, beam, radiate, radiance, gleaming, shine.

Related dictionary entries include shine, radiance, lambency, gleaming, gleam, incandescence.

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