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Plural of afterglow

regular plural

The plural of afterglow is afterglows.

Forms of afterglow

Singularafterglow
Pluralafterglows
Countablecountable and uncountable

Afterglows in a sentence

  • Little attention has been paid to foreglows compared with afterglows, either with regard to their natural beauty or their weather forecasting.1905, John Gordon M'Pherson, Meteorology or Weather Explained, T.C. and E.C. Jack, page 65. From the entry foreglow

Meaning of afterglow

  1. noun The glow seen in the sky after sunset.
  2. noun The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.
  3. noun The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.

Full definition of afterglow

Questions about the plural of afterglow

What is the plural of afterglow?
The plural of afterglow is afterglows.
Is afterglow countable?
Afterglow is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: afterglow (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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