Definitions for gleam
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Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. gleam, gleaming, glow, lambencynoun

   an appearance of reflected light

2. gleam, gleaming, glimmerverb

   a flash of light (especially reflected light)

3. glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shineverb

   be shiny, as if wet

   "His eyes were glistening"

4. gleam, glimmerverb

   shine brightly, like a star or a light

5. gleamverb

   appear briefly

   "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. gleamnoun

   a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.

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

2. gleamnoun

   a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.

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

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

3. gleamnoun

   brightness or shininess; splendor.

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

4. gleamverb

   To shine; to glitter; to glisten.

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

5. gleamverb

   To be briefly but strongly apparent.

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

6. gleamverb

   To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

   Etymology: * (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. Gleamverb

   to disgorge filth, as a hawk

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

2. Gleamnoun

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

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

3. Gleamnoun

   brightness; splendor

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

4. Gleamverb

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

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

5. Gleamverb

   to shine; to cast light; to glitter

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

6. Gleamverb

   to shoot out (flashes of light, etc.)

   Etymology: [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.]

Matched Categories

1. • Appear
   • Radiate
   • Shine

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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. 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.

2. 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.

3. Victor Hugo:

   Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

4. 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.

5. Thomas Carlyle:

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

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