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 Definitions for gleaming: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gleaming.]
1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn,
light gleams in the east.
[1913 Webster]
2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
Syn: To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter.
Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of
light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady
giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that
is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon
the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist;
a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See Flash.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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gleaming
adj : bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we
saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming
brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
[syn: agleam, nitid]
n 1: a flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: gleam,
glimmer]
2: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, glow, lambency]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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59 Moby Thesaurus words for "gleaming":
aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, buffed, burning,
burnished, candescent, finished, flushing, furbished, glace,
glassy, glazed, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glossy, glowing,
illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lacquered, lamping,
light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, polished,
radiant, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, sheeny, shellacked,
shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, starbright, starlike,
starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, varnished, velvety
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