1. To give off a steady light, often soft, warm-looking, or produced without a flame.
2. To show or feel a warm sense of happiness, pride, or satisfaction.
3. A warm or healthy-looking color in the face or skin.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- glow in the dark
- embers glow
On the page
The instrument panel glowed faintly in the dark cockpit.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- glow
- Past tense
- glowed
- Past participle
- glowed
- Present participle
- glowing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glow
- Present continuous
- am/is/are glowing
- Present perfect
- have/has glowed
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been glowing
- Past
- glowed
- Past continuous
- was/were glowing
- Past perfect
- had glowed
- Past perfect continuous
- had been glowing
- Future
- will glow
- Future continuous
- will be glowing
- Future perfect
- will have glowed
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been glowing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: glow; glows; glowed; glowed; glowing. Noun singular glow; plural glows. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: glows.
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