Meanings
adjectiveablow (not comparable)
- archaicnot comparablepostpositionalBlossoming, blooming, in blossom.
You know, the year's not always May — Oh, once the lilacs were ablow !
1891, Lizette Woodworth Reese, “Hallowmas” (poem), in A Handful of Lavender, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 132 more examples
[...] The flower breaks from its sheath and is ablow / And gives its richest perfumes. [...]
1867, Augusta Webster, “Lota”, in A Woman Sold and Other Poems, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 238[...] against the green, yet, growing in tilled soil, grow stronger and taller than any daffodil can grow in turf : hundreds of them are ablow together, and the very robustness of their splendour [...]
1989, Stephen L. Swynn, Garden Wisdom: Or, from One Generation to Another, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 110 - datednot comparablepostpositionalBlowing or being blown; windy.
Origin
- Englisha-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰleh₁-
- Proto-Germanic*blēaną
- Proto-West Germanic*blāan
- Old Englishblāwan
- Middle Englishblowen
- Englishblow
- Englishablow
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APA
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MLA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ablow,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ablow.
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