Gleam

Noun

 * 1) a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.
 * 2) a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.
 * The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive.
 * 1) brightness or shininess; splendor.

Synonyms

 * (small shaft or stream of light) beam, ray
 * (glimpse or indistinct sign) flicker, glimmer, trace
 * (brightness or splendor) dazzle, lambency, shine

Verb

 * 1) To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
 * 2) To be briefly but strongly apparent.
 * 3)  To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

Synonyms

 * (to shine, glitter, or glisten) glint, sparkle
 * (to radiate or emanate) glow, shine
 * (to be briefly but strongly apparent) flare, flash, kindle

Adjectives for Gleam
rare; momentary; occasional; varied (pi); silvery; dazzling; diabolic; sorrowful; cool; phosphorescent; portentous; troubled; lurid; livid; fiery; brilliant; distant; convex; dull; new; hateful; crafty; starry; subdued; unpleasant; sulphurous; metallic; stray; elusive; polar; waning; pallid; summer; flickering; bountiful; bright; ruddy; spasmodic; pale; alluring;  determined;  ineffectual; faint; vagrant; tearlike; broken; wilder; solitary; opaline; visionary; formless; evanescent; greasy; angry; illusive; moon-lit; splendid.

Verbs for Gleam
behold—; cast—; diffuse—; emit—; flare into—; flash—; light up with—; obscure—; reflect—; send—; shoot—; spread—; — blazes; —dazes; —dazzles; —flickers; — glitters; —illuminates; —pales; —shimmers; —shudders; —sparkles; —twinkles.

Thesaurus
beam, burn, coruscation, flare, flash, flicker, glance, glare, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, hint, indication, inkling, light, look, radiate, ray, scintilla, scintillate, scintillation, shaft, shimmer, shine, spark, sparkle, suggestion, trace, twinkle, vestige

Etymology

 * (noun) Originates before the first millennium from Middle English gleme, from Old English glæm; see.
 * (verb) Derived from the Middle English noun form before the first millennium.

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Finnish:


 * French: rayon, reflet, miroitement


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: pilkahdus


 * Romanian:


 * Finnish: ,


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Verb

 * Finnish:, ,


 * French: luire


 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: välähtää, välkähtää