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AFTERGLOW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The pleasure of remembering some pleasant event
Example:
he basked in the afterglow of his victory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("afterglow" is a kind of...):
pleasantness (the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("afterglow" is a kind of...):
atmospheric phenomenon (a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere)
