GLEAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gleaming mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEAMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flash of light (especially reflected light)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

gleam; gleaming; glimmer

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

flash (a sudden intense burst of radiant energy)

Derivation:

gleam (shine brightly, like a star or a light)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An appearance of reflected light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gleam; gleaming; glow; lambency

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

Meaning:

Bright with a steady but subdued shining

Synonyms:

agleam; gleaming; nitid

Context example:

Nereids beneath the nitid moon

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

Holmes sat in a great, old-fashioned chair, his inexorable eyes gleaming out of his haggard face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was nearly four o’clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And beyond that fire, in the circling darkness, Buck could see many gleaming coals, two by two, always two by two, which he knew to be the eyes of great beasts of prey.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Suffice it that we rushed up the stair which led direct to the Captain’s room, and there we found him lying with the bone gleaming white through his throat.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the further side the road winds through La Reolle, Bazaille, and Marmande, with the sunlit river still gleaming upon the right, and the bare poplars bristling up upon either side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mercury will go retrograde in Pisces from February 16 to March 9, but Mercury will not interfere with the gleaming career opportunities that will be brought to you by Mars.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

All that they saw of him was his bushy tail and fleeing hind legs—a view far less ferocious and intimidating than his bristling mane and gleaming fangs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a gleaming smile.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Her purple riding-habit almost swept the ground, her veil streamed long on the breeze; mingling with its transparent folds, and gleaming through them, shone rich raven ringlets.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It wavered and quivered above us for a minute, the morning sun gleaming upon its sleek, sinuous coils.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)