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GLEAMING

Pronunciation (US):

• GLEAMING (noun)
The noun GLEAMING has 2 senses:

1. a flash of light (especially reflected light)
2. an appearance of reflected light

Familiarity information: GLEAMING used as a noun is rare.

• GLEAMING (adjective)
The adjective GLEAMING has 1 sense:

1. bright with a steady but subdued shining

Familiarity information: GLEAMING used as an adjective is very rare.

• GLEAMING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A flash of light (especially reflected light)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

glimmer; gleaming; gleam

Hypernyms ("gleaming" is a kind of...):

flash (a sudden intense burst of radiant energy)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

An appearance of reflected light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gleam; lambency; gleaming; glow

Hypernyms ("gleaming" is a kind of...):

effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

• GLEAMING (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Bright with a steady but subdued shining

Synonyms:

agleam; gleaming; nitid

Context examples:

from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights / the gleaming brass on the altar / Nereids beneath the nitid moon

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

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(Arabic proverb)
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Definition of radiancy
Pronunciation of shine
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Definition of effulgence
Definition of refulgency

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