GLIMMERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glimmering mean? 

• GLIMMERING (noun)
  The noun GLIMMERING has 1 sense:

1. a slight suggestion or vague understanding

  Familiarity information: GLIMMERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLIMMERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight suggestion or vague understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

glimmer; glimmering; inkling; intimation

Context example:

he had no inkling what was about to happen

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

suggestion (an idea that is suggested)

 Context examples 

At last I saw a yellow seam of light glimmering in front of me, and I knew that it came from the other panel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Up and down went the long, shining blades, round and round they circled in curves of glimmering light, crossing, meeting, disengaging, with flash of sparks at every parry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of such things he had not the faintest glimmering.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We were dashing along the smooth white country road, with the long stretch of the Broads in front of us glimmering in the red light of the setting sun.

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

The glimmering vision was rent asunder and dissipated by Arthur, who, all evening, had been trying to draw his wild man out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The light had suddenly gone out, the glimmering square of window had disappeared, and the third floor formed a dark band round the lofty building, with its tiers of shining casements.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But she resolutely dodged with him, until the first glimmerings of reason returned and he gave over.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

As he came out into the glimmering patch of light, we saw that he carried something white under his arm.

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

I had not yet had a glimmering of unconsciousness, and it seemed that an interminable period of time was lapsing before I heard her feet flying back.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)