glow

English

/ɡləʊ/, /ɡloʊ/

verb
Definitions
  • To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.
  • To radiate some emotional quality like light.
  • To gaze especially passionately at something.
  • (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
  • To shine brightly and steadily.
  • (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
  • (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English glowen inherited from Old English glōwan inherited from Proto-Germanic *glōaną (shine) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (shine, glow, shimmer, glimmer, be green yellow, flourish).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵʰel-

Gloss

shine, glow, shimmer, glimmer, be green yellow, flourish

Concept
Semantic Field

The physical world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji
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