ablow
/əˈbloʊ/adjective
ablow is an adjective meaning “Blowing or being blown; windy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-B-L-O-W and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ablow mean?
adjective
- 1
archaicBlossoming, blooming, in blossom.
You know, the year's not always May – Oh, once the lilacs were ablow !
- 2
datedBlowing or being blown; windy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ablow?
- US /əˈbloʊ/
Ablow has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ablow?
Ablow appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does ablow come from?
From a- + blow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).