gleam

Meaning

1. An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
2. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
3. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
4. A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
5. (obsolete) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
6. (obsolete) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.

shine

glitter

be bright

shine forth

bolt of lightning

give light

glister

reflected light

refulgency

shine brightly

be radiant

be intelligent

be lustrous

be shinning

shine at

low light

excel at

glim

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡliːm/

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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