glow

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. To emit light as if heated.
2. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
3. To display intense emotion.
4. To gaze especially passionately at something.
5. To shine brightly and steadily.
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
7. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
8. (Internet, intransitive) To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
9. (Internet) to expose someone to the authorities.
10. (Internet) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The light given off by a glowing object.
2. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. (countable, uncountable) The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

Concepts

lueur

briller

luire

rougeoyer

ardeur

rayonner

brûler

éclat

être en feu

rutiler

poutre

lumière

luer

reflet

rougir

sentir

👃

fraîcheur

resplendir

rougeoiement

rougeoiment

rougeoyant

être parfumé

éclat lumineux

clarté

feu

🔥

chaleur

brûlure

luisant

puer

Synonymes

shine

gleam

blaze

light

radiance

burn

glitter

lustre

radiate

flame

luster

brightness

heat

flash

glint

beam

glimmer

sparkle

❇️

flush

twinkle

brighten

glare

shimmer

glowing

smoulder

brilliance

glisten

sun

🌞

be bright

glance

freshness

incandesce

flare

bloom

incandescence

smolder

effulgence

luminescence

smoke

lambency

redden

sheen

burning

perspire

piquancy

emit

luminosity

liveliness

colourfulness

gleaming

Traductions

brillar

resplandecer

glühen

ardore

glänzen

brillare

resplandor

strahlen

leuchten

risplendere

scheinen

Glut

arder

incandescenza

gloeien

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɡləʊ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: glowen

Hérité de ancien anglais: glōwan

Appartenant à saterlandais: gloie

Appartenant à frison occidental: gloeie

Appartenant à néerlandais: gloeien

Appartenant à allemand: glühen

Appartenant à danois: -

Appartenant à norvégien: glo

Appartenant à islandais: glóa

Appartenant à finnois: loistaa

In summary

From Middle English glowen, from Old English glōwan, from Proto-West Germanic *glōan, from Proto-Germanic *glōaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁-.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa, Finnish loistaa. See also glass.