Definitions for gleam
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Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency(noun)

   an appearance of reflected light

2. gleam, gleaming, glimmer(verb)

   a flash of light (especially reflected light)

3. glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine(verb)

   be shiny, as if wet

   "His eyes were glistening"

4. gleam, glimmer(verb)

   shine brightly, like a star or a light

5. gleam(verb)

   appear briefly

   "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. gleam(Noun)

   a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.

2. gleam(Noun)

   a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.

   The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive.

3. gleam(Noun)

   brightness or shininess; splendor.

4. gleam(Verb)

   To shine; to glitter; to glisten.

5. gleam(Verb)

   To be briefly but strongly apparent.

6. gleam(Verb)

   To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

Origin: * (noun) Originates before the first millennium from Middle English gleme, from Old English glæm; see ghel-.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gleam(verb)

   to disgorge filth, as a hawk

2. Gleam(noun)

   a shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse

3. Gleam(noun)

   brightness; splendor

4. Gleam(verb)

   to shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east

5. Gleam(verb)

   to shine; to cast light; to glitter

6. Gleam(verb)

   to shoot out (flashes of light, etc.)

Origin: [OE. glem, gleam, AS. glm, prob. akin to E. glimmer, and perh. to Gr. warm, to warm. Cf. Glitter.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Gleam

   glēm, v.i. to glow or shine: to flash.—n. a small stream of light: a beam: brightness.—n. Gleam′ing, a sudden shoot of light.—adj. Gleam′y, casting beams or rays of light. [A.S. glǽm, gleam, brightness (see Glimmer); akin to glass, glow.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gleam in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gleam in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of gleam in a Sentence

1. Thomas Carlyle:

   One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

2. William Wordsworth:

   She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament.

3. Hannah More:

   Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam on those that are without while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

4. Hannah More:

   Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

5. Bhavabhuti:

   The mind alike, Vigorous or weak, is capable of culture, But still bears fruit according to its nature. ?Tis not the teacher?s skill that rears the scholar: The sparkling gem gives back the glorious radiance It drinks from other light, but the dull earth Absorbs the blaze, and yields no gleam again.

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