aflash
/əˈflæʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Soon we could see the innumerable banners fluttering, and then the sun struck the sea of armor and set it all aflash. Yes, it was a fine sight; I hadn’t ever seen anything to beat it."
- "From the ceiling a screen folded down, its face aflash with myriad numbers, grids, and graphs."
- "1980, Don DeLillo (as Cleo Birdwell), Amazons, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Part 2, Chapter 8, pp. 171-172, He stroked his small, dark, squarish jaw, and lit up a cigarette, although the no smoking light had been aflash for at least fifteen minutes."
Etymology
From a- + flash.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a