gleam
Significado (inglés)
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- An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
- An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
- A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
- A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
- (obsolete) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
- (obsolete) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
Sinónimos
be bright
shine forth
bolt of lightning
give light
reflected light
shine brightly
be radiant
be intelligent
be lustrous
be shinning
shine at
low light
excel at
glim
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ɡliːm/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
From Middle English glem, gleam, gleme (“shaft of light; part of a comet’s tail; reflected sparkle; dawn; daylight; radiance (physical or spiritual); something fleeting”), from Old English glǣm (“gleam”), from Proto-Germanic *glaimiz (“brightness; splendour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). cognates * Old High German glīmen (“to glow, shine”); gleimo, glīmo (“glowworm”) (Middle High German glīme, gleime) * Old Saxon glīmo (“brightness”)
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