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Definition of Gleaming
1. Adjective. Bright with a steady but subdued shining. "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
2. Noun. A flash of light (especially reflected light).
Generic synonyms: Flash
Derivative terms: Gleam, Gleam, Glimmer, Glimmery
3. Noun. An appearance of reflected light.
Generic synonyms: Effulgence, Radiance, Radiancy, Refulgence, Refulgency, Shine
Derivative terms: Glow, Lambent
Definition of Gleaming
1. Adjective. Having a bright sheen. ¹
2. Noun. A flash or reflected light. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of gleam#Verb gleam) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gleaming
1. gleam [v] - See also: gleam
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleaming
Literary usage of Gleaming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"So girt in dazzling brass, they rallying went, 440 Whom great Poseidon led, and
held a sword, gleaming like lightning, of a terrible edge, In his broad hand ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"Where gleaming fields of hue Meet the voyageur'a gaze, And above, the heated air
Seems to make a river there, The pines stand up with pride By the ..."
3. The Gilded Age by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1874)
"of gleaming water, on your left, with a sail here and there and a lunatic asylum
on shore ; over beyond the water, on a distant elevation, you see a squat ..."
4. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"The Souhegan, though a rapid river, seemed to-day to have borrowed its character
from the noon. Where gleaming fields of haze Meet the ..."
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