SHEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sheen mean? 

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

1. the visual property of something that shines with reflected light

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The visual property of something that shines with reflected light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

luster; lustre; sheen; shininess

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

effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

Derivation:

sheeny (reflecting light)

 Context examples 

His furry coat shone with the sheen of silk.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The intervening bay was a dull sheen of molten metal, whereon sailing craft lay motionless or drifted with the lazy tide.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Above, the sky is stainless blue—blue as the sea itself, which under the forefoot is of the colour and sheen of azure satin.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Down this, amid the shouts of the enormous multitude, the prince cantered with his two attendant kings, his high officers of state, and his long train of lords and ladies, courtiers, counsellors, and soldiers, with toss of plume and flash of jewel, sheen of silk and glint of gold—as rich and gallant a show as heart could wish.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lady Lynn was a large and stout personage of about forty, very erect, very haughty-looking, richly dressed in a satin robe of changeful sheen: her dark hair shone glossily under the shade of an azure plume, and within the circlet of a band of gems.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)