GLITTER
Dictionary entry overview: What does glitter mean?
• GLITTER (noun)
The noun GLITTER has 2 senses:
1. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
2. the occurrence of a small flash or spark
Familiarity information: GLITTER used as a noun is rare.
• GLITTER (verb)
The verb GLITTER has 1 sense:
1. be shiny, as if wet
Familiarity information: GLITTER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GLITTER (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of shining with a bright reflected light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
glisten; glister; glitter; sparkle; scintillation
Hypernyms ("glitter" is a kind of...):
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
Meaning:
The occurrence of a small flash or spark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
coruscation; sparkle; glitter
Hypernyms ("glitter" is a kind of...):
flash (a sudden intense burst of radiant energy)
• GLITTER (verb)
Meaning:
Be shiny, as if wet
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
gleam; glint; glisten; glitter; shine
Context example:
His eyes were glistening
Hypernyms (to "glitter" is one way to...):
appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "glitter"):
spangle (glitter as if covered with spangles)
shimmer (give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence examples:
Lights glitter on the horizon
The horizon is glittering with lights
