glint

Meaning

Noun

1. A short flash of light, usually when reflected off a shiny surface.
2. (obsolete) A brief look; a glance.

Adj

Not sharp; dull.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To flash or gleam briefly.
2. (intransitive, uncommon) To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter.
3. (transitive) To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect.
4. (Shropshire, archaic, transitive) To dry; to wither.

Synonyms

gleam

glitter

flash

sparkle

❇️

shine

glisten

twinkle

glow

glance

flare

flicker

light

glare

scintillate

shimmer

coruscate

glimmer

luster

resplendence

dazzle

peek

shininess

sheen

twinkling

wink

😉

radiance

coruscation

reflect

resplendency

spark

reflexive

refulgence

return

reverberation

shining

smolder

smoulder

specular

splendor

splendour

streak

be bright

bolt of lightning

glister

refulgency

blaze

glitte

blink

bloom

brighten

Translations

glitzern

briller

αστράφτω

étinceler

λάμψη

λάμπω

brillo

schitteren

luire

brillar

ανταύγεια

flackern

reflet

scintiller

❇️

Flackern

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡlɪnt/

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish: glänta

Cognate with Swedish: glimt

In summary

15th century. Borrowed from Scots glint, from Middle English glenten (“to shine, gleam; flash”), probably from Old Norse *glenta, from Proto-Germanic *glantijaną, causitive of Proto-Germanic *glintaną (“to gleam, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Cognate with Danish glente, Swedish glänta, Norwegian Nynorsk gletta (“to peep, look”), Middle High German glinzen; compare also Swedish glinta (“to slip, slide, gleam, shine”), Swedish glimt (“flash, glint, glimpse”), Norwegian Nynorsk glanta, gletta (“to glide, slip”). Reintroduced into literary English by Robert Burns.