What does gleaming mean?
Definitions for gleaming
gleam·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
gleam, gleaming, glimmernoun
a flash of light (especially reflected light)
gleam, gleaming, glow, lambencyadjective
an appearance of reflected light
agleam, gleaming, nitidadjective
bright with a steady but subdued shining
"from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
Wiktionary
gleamingnoun
A flash or reflected light.
gleamingadjective
Having a bright sheen.
Webster Dictionary
Gleaming
of Gleam
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of gleaming in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of gleaming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of gleaming in a Sentence
We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad:
Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free
What I saw step through the doorway was like a gleaming figure -- very special, brilliant, to me, she didn't seem to walk. She almost floated in slow-motion.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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- llampantCatalan, Valencian
- relucienteSpanish
- hohtavaFinnish
- brillantFrench
- נוצץHebrew
- brilhantePortuguese
- сверкающийRussian
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