Definition of "afterlight" in İngilizce

noun

1. Light that follows something, especially the dim light in the sky after the sun has fully set.

   • 1949, Dorothy L. Sayers (translator), The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Cantica 1: Hell, Penguin, Canto 16, p. 170, So may thy soul these many years abide / Housed in thy body, and the after-light / Of fame shine long behind thee,