aflare
/əˈflɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).
Example Sentences
- "1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248, the flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk"
- "Ho! Get to lair! The sun’s aflare / Behind the breathing grass:"
- "[The dragon] kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment."
- "[…] he had not wanted to see the man when perhaps his blood was running hot and his temper aflare."
- "[…] Old Pye Street, Peter’s Street, and Duck Lane were aflare with the coarse lights of open naphtha lamps,"
- "He used to tell me how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English flare English aflare From a- + flare.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈflɛɹ/
- British English: /əˈflɛə/