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BrightAdjective1. Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room". 2. Having striking color; "bright greens"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage". 3. Characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average". 4. Having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights". 5. Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents". 6. Splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court". 7. Not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed". 8. Clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets". 9. Characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay". 10. : abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny". 11. : full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career". Adverb1. With brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bright" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Biology & Biotechnology | Pertaining to timber that is free from discoloration. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Openwork effects within a wale in lace furnishings, obtained without distorting the warp threads. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Descriptive of textile materials, particularly man-made fibres, the normal lustre of which has not been reduced by physical or chemical means. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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The term "bright", used as a noun, is a neologism invented by Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell as a positive-sounding umbrella term to describe various kinds of non-superstitious people. They define the word as follows:
Richard Dawkins has publicised the idea in an article.
- A bright is a person whose worldview is naturalistic - free of supernatural and mystical elements. A bright's ethics and actions are based on a naturalistic worldview.
A different movement that includes naturalists who believe in God is called Universism.
External links
- The Brights Net — website set up by Geisert and Futrell to publicise their idea
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Bright is a town located in Dearborn County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,405.Geography
Bright is located at 39°13'5" North, 84°51'44" West (39.218114, -84.862357)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 37.1 km² (14.3 mi²). 37.1 km² (14.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 5,405 people, 1,770 households, and 1,493 families residing in the town. The population density is 145.8/km² (377.7/mi²). There are 1,811 housing units at an average density of 48.9/km² (126.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.43% White, 0.41% African American, 0.11% Native American, 0.09% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 0.67% from two or more races. 0.63% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,770 households out of which 46.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.4% are married couples living together, 8.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 15.6% are non-families. 12.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 3.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.05 and the average family size is 3.36. In the town the population is spread out with 31.7% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 22.1% from 45 to 64, and 6.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 100.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 98.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $63,813, and the median income for a family is $66,639. Males have a median income of $41,923 versus $27,917 for females. The per capita income for the town is $22,401. 1.7% of the population and 1.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.8% are under the age of 18 and 2.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bright, Indiana."
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John Bright (November 16, 1811 - March 27, 1889), was a British politician, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.Bright was born at Rochdale in Lancashire -- one of the early centres of the Industrial Revolution. His father, Jacob Bright, was a much-respected Quaker, who had started a cotton mill at Rochdale in 1809. His own father, Abraham Bright, had been a Wiltshire yeoman, who, early in the 18th century, removed to Coventry, where his descendants remained. Jacob Bright had been educated at the Ackworth school of the Society of Friends, and apprenticed to a fustian manufacturer at New Mills. John Bright was his son by his second wife, Martha Wood, daughter of a tradesman of Bolton-le-Moors. She had been educated at Ackworth school, and was a woman of great strength of character and refined taste. There were eleven children of this marriage, of whom John was the eldest surviving son. He was a delicate child, and was sent as a day pupil to a boarding school near his home, kept by William Littlewood. A year at the Ackworth school, two years at a school at York, and a year and a half at Newton, near Clitheroe, completed his education. He learned, he himself said, but little Latin and Greek, but acquired a great love of English literature, which his mother fostered, and a love of outdoor pursuits. In his sixteenth year he entered his father's mill, and in due time became a partner in the business.
In Rochdale, Jacob Bright was a leader of the opposition to a local church-rate. Rochdale was also prominent in the movement for parliamentary reform, by which the town successfully claimed to have a member allotted to it under the Reform Bill. John Bright took part in both campaigns. He was an ardent Nonconformist, proud to number among his ancestors John Gratton, a friend of George Fox, and one of the persecuted and imprisoned preachers of the Society of Friends. His political interest was probably first kindled by the Preston election in 1830, in which Lord Stanley, after a long struggle, was defeated by "Orator" Hunt. But it was as a member of the Rochdale Juvenile Temperance Band that he first learned public speaking. These young men went out into the villages, borrowed a chair of a cottager, and spoke from it at open-air meetings. John Bright's first extempore speech was at a temperance meeting. Bright got his notes muddled, and broke down. The chairman gave out a temperance song, and during the singing told Bright to put his notes aside and say what came into his mind. Bright obeyed, began with much hesitancy, but found his tongue and made an excellent address. On some early occasions, however, he committed his speech to memory. In 1832 he called on the Rev. John Aldis, an eminent Baptist minister, to accompany him to a local Bible meeting. Mr Aldis described him as a slender, modest young gentleman, who surprised him by his intelligence and thoughtfulness, but who seemed nervous as they walked to the meeting together. At the meeting he made a stimulating speech, and on the way home asked for advice. Mr Aldis counselled him not to learn his speeches, but to write out and commit to memory certain passages and the peroration. This "first lesson in public speaking," as Bright called it, was given in his twenty-first year, but he had not then contemplated a public career. He was a fairly prosperous man of business, very happy in his home, always ready to take part in the social, educational and political life of his native town. A founder of the Rochdale Literary and Philosophical Society, he took a leading part in its debates, and on returning from a holiday journey in the East, gave the society a lecture on his travels.
He first met Richard Cobden in 1836 or 1837. Cobden was an alderman of the newly formed Manchester corporation, and Bright went to ask him to speak at an education meeting in Rochdale. Cobden consented, and at the meeting was much struck by Bright's short speech, and urged him to speak against the Corn Laws. His first speech on the Corn Laws was made at Rochdale in 1838, and in the same year he joined the Manchester provisional committee which in 1839 founded the Anti-Corn Law League He was still only the local public man, taking part in all public movements, especially in opposition to John Feilden's proposed factory legislation, and to the Rochdale church-rate. In 1839 he built the house which he called "One Ash", and married Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Priestman of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
In November of the same year there was a dinner at Bolton to Abraham Paulton, who had just returned from a successful Anti-Corn Law tour in Scotland. Among the speakers were Cobden and Bright, and the dinner is memorable as the first occasion on which the two future leaders appeared together on a Free Trade platform. Bright is described by the historian of the League as "a young man then appearing for the first time in any meeting out of his own town, and giving evidence, by his energy and by his grasp of the subject, of his capacity soon to take a leading part in the great agitation."
In 1840 he led a movement against the Rochdale church-rate, speaking from a tombstone in the churchyard, where it looks down on the town in the valley below. A daughter, Helen, was born to him; but his young wife, after a long illness, died of tuberculosis in September 1841. Three days after her death at Leamington, Cobden called to see him. "I was in the depths of grief," said Bright, when unveiling the statue of his friend at Bradford in 1877, "I might almost say of despair, for the life and sunshine of my house had been extinguished." Cobden spoke some words of condolence, but "after a time he looked up and said, 'There are thousands of homes in England at this moment where wives, mothers and children are dying of hunger. Now, when the first paroxysm of your grief is past, I would advise you to come with me, and we will never rest till the Corn Laws are repealed.' I accepted his invitation," added Bright, "and from that time we never ceased to labour hard on behalf of the resolution which we had made."
At the general election in 1841 Cobden was returned for Stockport, and in 1843 Bright was the Free Trade candidate at a by-election at Durham. He was defeated, but his successful competitor was unseated on petition, and at the second contest Bright was returned. He was already known as Cobden's chief ally, and was received in the House of Commons with suspicion and hostility. In the Anti-Corn Law movement the two speakers complemented of each other. Cobden had the calmness and confidence of the political philosopher, Bright had the passion and the fervour of the popular orator. Cobden did the reasoning, Bright supplied the declamation, but mingled argument with appeal. No orator of modern times rose more rapidly. He was not known beyond his own borough when Cobden called him to his side in 1841, and he entered parliament towards the end of the session of 1843 with a formidable reputation. He had been all over England and Scotland addressing vast meetings and, as a rule, carrying them with him; he had taken a leading part in a conference held by the Anti-Corn Law League in London had led deputations to the duke of Sussex, to Sir James Graham, then home secretary, and to Lord Ripen and Gladstone, the secretary and under secretary of the Board of Trade; and he was universally recognized as the chief orator of the Free Trade movement. Wherever "John Bright of Rochdale" was announced to speak, vast crowds assembled. He had been so announced, for the last time, at the first great meeting in Drury Lane theatre on March 15 1843; henceforth his name was enough. He took his seat in the House of Commons as one of the members for Durham on July 28 1843, and on August 7 delivered his maiden speech in support of a motion by Mr Ewart for reduction of import duties. He was there, he said, "not only as one of the representatives of the city of Durham, but also as one of the representatives of that benevolent organization, the Anti-Corn Law League." A member who heard the speech described Bright as "about the middle size, rather firmly and squarely built, with a fair, clear complexion, and an intelligent and pleasing expression of countenance. His voice is good, his enunciation distinct, and his delivery free from any unpleasant peculiarity or mannerism." He wore the usual Friend's coat, and was regarded with much interest and hostile curiosity on both sides of the House.
Mr Ewart's motion was defeated, but the movement of which Cobden and Bright were the leaders continued to spread. In the autumn the League resolved to raise £100,000; an appeal was made to the agricultural interest by great meetings in the farming counties, and in November The Times startled the country by declaring, in a leading article, "The League is a great fact. It would be foolish, nay, rash, to deny its importance." In London great meetings were held in Covent Garden theatre, at which William Johnson Fox was the chief orator, but Bright and Cobden were the leaders of the movement. Bright publicly deprecated the popular tendency to regard Cobden and himself as the chief movers in the agitation, and Cobden told a Rochdale audience that he always stipulated that he should speak first, and Bright should follow. His "more stately genius," as John Morley calls it, was already making him the undisputed master of the feelings of his audiences. In the House of Commons his progress was slower. Cobden's argumentative speeches were regarded more sympathetically than Bright's more rhetorical appeals, and in a debate on Villiers's annual motion against the Corn Laws Bright was heard with so much impatience that he was obliged to sit down.
In the next session (1845) he moved for an inquiry into the operation of the Game Laws. At a meeting of county members earlier in the day Peel had advised them not to be led into discussion by a violent speech from the member for Durham, but to let the committee be granted without debate. Bright was not violent, and Cobden said that no did his work admirably, and won golden opinions from all men. The speech established his position in the House of Commons. In this session Bright and Cobden came into opposition, Cobdev voting for the Maynooth Grant and Bright against it. On only one other occasion—a vote for South Kensington—did they go into opposite lobbies, during twenty-five years of parliamentary life.
In the autumn of 1845 Bright retained Cobden in the public career to which Cobden had invited him four years before; Bright was in Scotland when a letter came from Cobden announcing his determination, forced on him by business difficulties; to retire from public work. Bright replied that if Cobden retired the mainspring of the League was gone. "I can in no degree take your place," he wrote. "As a second I can fight, but there are incapacities about me, of which I am fully conscious, which prevent my being more than second in such a work as we have laboured in." A few days later he set off for Manchester, posting in that wettest of autumns through "the rain that rained away the Corn Laws," and on his arrival got his friends together, and raised the money which tided Cobden over the emergency. The crisis of the struggle had come. Peel's budget in 1845 was a first step towards Free Trade. The bad harvest and the potato disease drove him to the repeal of the Corn Laws, and at a meeting in Manchester on July 2 1846 Cobden moved and Bright seconded a motion dissolving the league. A library of twelve hundred volumes was presented to Bright as a memorial of the struggle.
Bright married, in June 1847, Margaret Elizabeth Leatham, of Wakefield, by whom he had seven children, John Albert Bright being the eldest. In the succeeding July he was elected uncontested for Manchester, with Milner Gibson. In the new parliament, he opposed legislation restricting the hours of labour, and, as a Nonconformist, spoke against clerical control of national education. In 1848 he voted for Hume's household suffrage motion, and introduced a bill for the repeal of the Game Laws. When Lord John Russell brought forward his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, Bright opposed it as "a little, paltry, miserable measure," and foretold its failure. In this parliament he spoke much on Irish questions. In a speech in favour of the government bill for a rate in aid in 1849, he won loud cheers from both sides, and was complimented by Disraeli for having sustained the reputation of that assembly. From this time forward he had the ear of the House, and took effective part in the debates. He spoke against capital punishment, against church-rates, against flogging in the army, and against the Irish Established Church. He supported Cobden's motion for the reduction of public expenditure, and in and out of parliament pleaded for peace. In the election of 1852 he was again returned for Manchester on. the principles of free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. But war was in the air, and the most impassioned speeches he ever delivered were addressed to this parliament in fruitless opposition to the Crimean War. Neither the House nor the country would listen. "I went to the House on Monday," wrote Macaulay in March 1854, "and heard Bright say everything I thought." His most memorable speech, the greatest he ever made, was delivered on February 23 1855. "The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land. You may almost hear the beating of his wings," he said, and concluded with an appeal to the prime minister that moved the House as it had never been moved within living memory.
Bright had much literary and social recognition in his later years. In 1882 he was elected lord rector of the University of Glasgow, and Dr Dale wrote of his rectorial address: " It was not the old Bright." He was given an honorary degree of the University of Oxford in 1886, and in 1888 a statue of him was erected at Birmingham. The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury said of him, and it sums up his character as a public man:
"He was the greatest master of English oratory that this generation--I thay say several generations--has seen. At a time when much speaking has depressed, has almost exterminated eloquence, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to utter."On his death, Bright was buried in the graveyard of the meeting-house of the Society of Friends in Rochdale.
See The Life and Spoeches of the Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., by George Barnett Smith, 2 vols. 8vo (1881); The Life of John Bright, M.P., by John M Gilchrist, in Cassell's Representative Biographies (1868); John Bright, by CA Vince (1898); Speeches on Parliamentary Reform by John Bright, M.P., revised by Himself (1866); Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, by John Bright, M.P., edited by JE Thorold Rogers, 2 vols. 8vo (1868); Public Addresses, edited by JE Thorold Rogers, 8vo (1879); Public Letters of the Right Hon. John Bright, MP., collected by HJ Leech (1885).
Reference
- This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BRITE | English | Bright Radar Indicator Tower Equipment | N/A |
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Synonyms: BrightSynonyms: brilliant (adj), burnished (adj), lustrous (adj), promising (adj), shining (adj), shiny (adj), smart (adj), sunny (adj), sunshiny (adj), undimmed (adj), vivid (adj), brightly (adv), brilliantly (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: dimmed (adj), dull (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cheerfulness | Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. |
Hope | Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute. |
Repute | Illustrious, glorious, splendid, brilliant, radiant; bright; full-blown; honorific. |
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Crosswords: Bright |
| English words defined with "bright": bright blue, bright side ♦ meadow bright. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bright": BRIGHT CUTTER, bright sulfur, Bright Sunshine, BRIGHT SURGE ON THE DISK. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bright": Verdin. (references) |
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Screenplays | Not too bright, though (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Look on the bright side (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin) Look at the bright side (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) In your wisdom, Lord, you took him, as you took so many bright flowering young men at Quezon, at Langdok, at Hill 364. These young men gave their lives (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) So bright, so beautiful, our precious (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | And turn into a beacon burning endlessly bright. (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply) And wakes 'em up the same way in the early bright. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler) And a bright orange pair of pants (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel) They see a bright new shining star, (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M) Turnaround bright eyes (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler) | |
Clever | Average Employee: Not too bright. (references; author: unknown) No man ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown) No one ever injured his eyesight by looking on the bright side of things. (references; author: unknown) Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. (references; author: unknown) College is that bright interlude of freedom a young man has between subjection to his mother and submission to his wife. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Bobby brings bright bells. (references; author: unknown) Bright blows the broom on the brook's bare brown banks. (references; author: unknown) Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons -- balancing them badly. (references; author: unknown) The bleak breeze blights the bright blue blossom (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bright and Dark Lisa (1973) The Coming Asunder of Jimmy Bright (1971) Bright Promise (1969) Ring of Bright Water (1969) The High Bright Sun (1964) | |
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 | Mormons observing a parade. It is a bright sunny day in Salt Lake City. Pictured are crowds of people and also small groups of people. (note: this could be a picture of any people watching an outdoor event, such as a parade). The Mormons are being studied for their low cancer death rate-about 20% below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast, demonstrating marked enhancement (bright area) which was confirmed to be cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | A team of astronomers has announced that a recently detected gamma-ray burst was as bright as ... Credit: NASA. |  | The Hubble telescope has captured a view of a globular cluster called G1, a large, bright ball ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Mosaic of the near side of the moon as taken by the Clementine star trackers. The images were taken on March 15, 1994. In this view, north is up. The bright crater near the bottom of the image is the Tycho. Credit: NASA. |  | Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA. |
 | Paddling through the Patuxent marshes on a bright winter's day. Sun glint sparkles on the water. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | An orange boat accentuated by the blue water and bright white ice berg. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A bright view from the bridge and of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | White grunt caught at Frank's Pier in Bayport. A very bright orange color is seen inside the mouth. These fish are also called Key West Grunt, Flannelmouth, or Gulf Snapper. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Bright balls." by Csaba Magyar Commentary: "1/4 sec." | "Starlight, Star Bright" by Elisabeth Howe Commentary: "A plastic mobile of stars and a little moon..." |
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 | Quick tempoed excerpt using lots of high, bright strings and synthesized melody. | | A scratching, bright, and metallic sound. |
| A high piercing bright digital tone. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
John Bright | Force is not a remedy. |
| England is the Mother of Parliaments. | |
| Popular applause veers with the wind. | |
John Donne | Show me, dear Christ, Thy spouse, so bright and clear. |
Lord Chesterfield | Character must be kept bright as well as clean. |
Theognis | Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. |
Thomas Hood | Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. |
Walter Savage Landor | The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. |
William Carey | The future is as bright as the promises of God. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1939) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | English verdure, English culture, English comfort, seen under a sun bright, without being oppressive |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Alice noticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bright sun was gleaming through the new and glossy leaves |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The bright warm sunlight was streaming through the window and he could hear the din of traffic |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The red sun set and left a shining twilight on the land, so that faces were bright in the evening and eyes shone in reflection of the sky. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | He then desired me to draw my scimitar, which, although it had got some rust by the sea water, was in most parts exceeding bright. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I withdrew yet farther into my shell, and endeavored to keep a bright fire both within my house and within my breast |
Sonnets | William Shakespeare | I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night |
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Health | It may include appropriately timed bright light exposure. (references) | |
The tsetse fly is attracted to both bright and very dark colors. (references) | ||
These growths can cause either bright red blood or occult bleeding. (references) | ||
Business | The engineering plastics market has become a bright spot for U.S. firms. (references) | |
In the longer term, however, the outlook for Singapore construction remains bright. (references) | ||
For women, the winning packaging presentation typically was a bright, contemporary pack in primary colors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | The 2001 outlook for manufacturing is not bright. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Bright colors such as red, blue, green and black dominate ads. (references) | |
Honduras | Therefore, export opportunities for U.S. suppliers remain bright. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burma | The most common forms of mistreatment are sleep and food deprivation, beatings coupled with around-the-clock questioning under bright lights, near suffocation with plastic bags, confinement in leg clamps, and forcing water in the nose and throat. (references) |
Uganda | Bright Gabula Africa, whose death sentence for treason (plotting an armed coup) was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1995, remained imprisoned pending the outcome of his appeal to the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, a largely autonomous constitutional body that recommends whether presidential clemency powers should be exercised in a given case. (references) | |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | Annual aid receipts and remittances from overseas workers, an important source of foreign exchange earnings, have kept the exchange market somewhat stable over the past several years and going into fiscal year 2001, workers' remittances were expected to remain a bright spot for the economy. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | EXIM Bank is one of the newest U.S. Government agencies in Vietnam, having only signed the Framework Guarantee Agreement (a necessary step to opening programs) with the State Bank of Vietnam on 9 December 1999. Despite the fact that it has been here for less than one year, EXIM Bank has issued over fifty letters of interest and anticipates a bright future in Vietnam. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Very clean and bright atmosphere. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABRACADABRA. By Abracadabra we signify An infinite number of things. 'Tis the answer to What? and How? and Why? And Whence? and Whither? -- a word whereby The Truth (with the comfort it brings) Is open to all who grope in night, Crying for Wisdom's holy light. Whether the word is a verb or a noun Is knowledge beyond my reach. I only know that 'tis handed down. From sage to sage, From age to age -- An immortal part of speech! Of an ancient man the tale is told That he lived to be ten centuries old, In a cave on a mountain side. (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feat and hear and hear, Though he never was heard To utter a word But "Abracadabra, abracadab, Abracada, abracad, Abraca, abrac, abra, ab!" 'Twas all he had, 'Twas all they wanted to hear, and each Made copious notes of the mystical speech, Which they published next -- A trickle of text In the meadow of commentary. Mighty big books were these, In a number, as leaves of trees; In learning, remarkably -- very! He's dead, As I said, And the books of the sages have perished, But his wisdom is sacredly cherished. In Abracadabra it solemnly rings, Like an ancient bell that forever swings. O, I love to hear That word make clear Humanity's General Sense of Things. Jamrach Holobom |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Barker | Well, obviously, they have to be very attractive physically. They have to look smashing in a swimsuit. And we would like to have them be bright and able to make a refrigerator come alive for you. |
Nellie Connally | The day had changed from a gray, rainy day to a beautiful bright, sunshiny day, perfect for a caravan. Before we landed, I asked John if I could ride in the car with him in Dallas. He said, certainly. |
Suzanne Somers | I don't think men are intimidated by bright women. I think they like it, and I think they find it sexy. |
Victoria Principal | Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think that anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | As Americans, we know there are times when we must step forward and accept our responsibility to lead the world away from the dark chaos of dictators, toward the bright promise of a better day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bright" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.30% of the time. "Bright" is used about 5,530 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.3% | 5,436 | 1,801 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.55% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,530 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bright" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bright | Last name | 13,000 | 915 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bright". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nahallal | N/A | Biblical | Bright |
| Zohar | N/A | Biblical | Bright |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Bright Packaging Industry Berhad | USA | Bright Horizons Family Solutions |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bright, IN (CDP, FIPS 7624) |
Expressions using "bright": a bright idea ♦ a bright thought ♦ amaurotic cat's eye blindness of one eye due to various intraocular conditions in which a bright reflection is observed at the pupil as it would appear from the tapetum lucidum of a cat ♦ be bright ♦ bright and early ♦ bright as a new penny ♦ bright blue ♦ bright display ♦ bright face ♦ bright future ♦ bright idea ♦ bright interval ♦ bright patch ♦ bright period ♦ bright person ♦ bright prospect ♦ bright prospects ♦ bright red ♦ bright segment ♦ bright Shade ♦ bright side ♦ bright spark ♦ bright spell ♦ bright spot ♦ bright thought ♦ bright with fever ♦ bright yellow ♦ eyes be bright with desire ♦ floated bright ♦ Honor bright ♦ look at the bright side ♦ look on the bright side of ♦ meadow bright ♦ Sea Bright ♦ she's a bright article! ♦ take a bright view of ♦ to look on the bright side. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bright": bright-bay, bright-beaked, bright-blue, bright-cheeked, bright-coloured, bright-dull, bright-eyed, bright-faced, bright-feathered, bright-field, bright-green, bright-haired, Bright-harnessed, bright-headed, bright-hued, bright-lavender, bright-line, bright-lit, bright-looking, bright-painted, bright-peach, bright-pink, bright-point, bright-red, bright-toned, bright-witted, bright-work, bright-yellow. | |
Ending with "bright": jewel-bright, not-so-bright, over-bright, too-bright. | |
Containing "bright": all-things-bright-and-beautiful. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bright eyes | 1,269 | bright colors | 62 |
bright eyes lyrics | 639 | sea bright new jersey | 58 |
bright house | 606 | bright mandy | 56 |
bright house network | 364 | belinda bright | 50 |
rainbow bright | 266 | bright eyes picture | 47 |
bright | 239 | black bright dawn star | 44 |
bright horizon | 221 | bright start | 44 |
bright cable house | 220 | new bright | 43 |
bright smile | 212 | band bright eyes | 43 |
bright florida future | 176 | beginning bright | 42 |
bright future | 163 | always look on the bright side of life | 37 |
bright future scholarship | 156 | bright eyes guitar tab | 37 |
florida bright future scholarship | 119 | bright perseus star | 35 |
bright eyes tab | 114 | bright horizon family solution | 35 |
bright star | 81 | super bright led | 34 |
bright in perseus star | 80 | bright net | 33 |
bright light | 71 | bright picture rainbow | 33 |
bright idea macon | 67 | bill bright | 31 |
bright angel lodge | 67 | bright eyes music | 30 |
bright idea | 65 | around bright eyes turn | 28 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bright"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skitterend (brilliant), pragtig (brilliant, lovely), helder (clear, distinct, light, obvious, plain), blink (brilliant). (various references) | |
Albanian | i zgjuar (apt, artful, astir, awake, awaken, cagey, cagy, clever, exalted, ingenious, intelligent, nimble, quick, quick-witted, ready-witted, reasonable, responsible, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, sleepless, smart, wakeful, waking), i shndritshëm (brilliant, effulgent, glaring, glistening, lucent, lustrous, shiny), i shkëlqyer (admirable, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i ndritshëm (alert, brilliant, flaming, light, lucid, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, starry), i ndezur (ablaze, aglow, alight, flamboyant, flame, glaring, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, lively, noisy, on fire, vivid), i mprehtë (acute, astute, clairvoyant, Clarion, discerning, edgy, exquisite, fine, high, high pitched, incisive, ingenious, keen, keen-witted, knowing, nimble, penetrating, penetrative, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, piercing, piping, pointed, pungent, quick, ridged, ridgy, sagacious, salt, sharp, sharp cut, shrill, subtile, subtle, tart, trenchant), i kthjellët (clear, clear-sighted, cloudless, fair, light, limpid, liquid, lucid, luminary, pellucid, perspicuous, sober, unclouded). (various references) | |
Arabic | وضاء (lightsome), باسم (on behalf of, rosy, smiling), باهي (brilliant, flourishing, glaring, rich), رائق (calm, clear, impassive, limpid, piping, placid, pure, serene), ذو عقل (intelligent, open minded, rational, wise), ذكي (acute, agile, astute, brainy, brilliant, clever, cute, dashing, fox, ingenious, intelligent, knowledgeable, luminous, natty, penetrating, quick, sagacious, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, wise, witty), صاف (clear, fair, fine, lucid, net, pellucid, perspicuous, placid, pure, puristic, raw, round, serene, sincere, stark, unclouded), على نحو نير, بارع (able, accomplished, adroit, artful, brilliant, capable, clever, crafty, cunning, dexterous, dextrous, educated, fancy, fiend, foxy, handsome, handy, ingenious, intelligent, masterful, masterly, neat, nice, pretty, skilful, skilled, skillful, smart, subtle, superior, sweet, very beautiful, witty, workmanlike, workmanly), ساطع (dazzling, effulgent, glaring, incandescent, shining, splendid, spotless), فاقع (brilliant, intense, vivid), لامع (blazing, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), نير (lucid, luminous, yoke), مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat), مشرق (agleam, beaming, beamy, brilliant, clear, luminous, radiant, shining, shiny, splendid, vivid), مشع (beaming, beamy, irradiant, radiant, radiating, shining), مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), متألق (aglitter, brilliant, effulgent, glorious, luminescent, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, staring), زاه (flashily, gay, glad, glaring, radiant, shining, vivid). (various references) | |
Bavarian | häis (clear, light). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ясен (articulate, ash, ash-tree, clean-cut, clear, coherent, crystal, distinct, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, matter of course, neat, obvious, pellucid, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, readable, robust, serene, sharp, silver, silvery, Square, straight, straightaway, straightforward, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, unshadowed, vivid), ярък (blazing, clear, flaming, flashy, garish, gaudy, gay, glaring, glowing, gutty, harsh, high-colored, high-coloured, hot, jazz, jazzy, live, loud, lucid, lurid, noisy, picturesque, refulgent, relucent, round, showy, staring, violent, vivid, zizzi), умен (brainy, clever, cute, intelligent, nifty, politic, sage, shrewd, smart, wise), светъл (auspicious, cheerful, cheery, clear, fair, fair haired, fine, light, liquid, lucent, lucid, pale, relucent, rosy, unshadowed, vivid, white), сияен (auric, effulgent, luminous, radiant, resplendent), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), ведър (placid, serene), блестящ (agleam, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb, vivid), прозрачен (clear, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid, peek-a-boo, pellucid, see through, sheer, transparent, white), полиран (glossy, polished, varnished), духовит (epigrammatic, jocular, salt, witty). (various references) | |
Chinese | 朗 (clear), 光 (light, ray), 爚 (fiery), 爽 (clear, frank, invigorating, open, straightforward), 爍 (luminous), 亮 (light), 晢 , 景 (circumstance, scenery), 翌 (tomorrow), 暉 (dig, pick, radiant), 炯 (clear), 湑 (abundant, strain spirits), 曨 , 明亮 (luminescent), 明 (clear, next, to understand), 昺 (glorious), 昶 (long day), 光亮 , 光明 (promising), 暲 (to rise), 白 (blank, clear, empty, gratuitous, plain, pure, snowy, white), 錦 (brocade, embroidered work), 賁 (energetic), 輝 (glorious), 耿 , 聰明 (intelligent), 鮮明 (clear-cut, distinct), 鑠 (fuse, melt), 紑 (glossy), 蠲 (glow-worm, remit taxes), 鎬 (a pick, place name, stove), 皎 (white), 皓 (d, white), 皦 (sparkling), 粲 (beautiful, smilingly, splendid), 煇 (glorious), 燦 (brilliant, glorious, lustrous, resplendent), 熹 (warm), 炳 (brilliant, luminous), 顥 (white). (various references) | |
Czech | jasný (broad, cheerful, clear, clear-cut, definite, distinct, fair, fresh, live, lucid, overt, pellucid, plain, radiant, serene, sheeny, shinny, straight, sunny, unambiguous, unequivocal, vivid). (various references) | |
Danish | lys (candela, candle, candlepower, clear, light), let (easy, facile, light). (various references) | |
Dutch | glanzend (brilliant), lumineus (brilliant), briljant (brilliant). (various references) | |
Esperanto | brila (brilliant), luma (light), hela (clear, light). (various references) | |
Faeroese | blankur (brilliant), ljósur (clear, light, serene, untroubled), glitrandi (brilliant), glógvandi (brilliant). (various references) | |
Farsi | تابناک (Radiant, Sunny), تابان (Agleam, Aglow, Brilliant, Hot, Light, Luminous, Perfervid, Shiner), زرنگ (Adroit, Agile, Apt, Clever, Dapper, Jaunty, Nimble, Pawky, Shifty, Shrewd, Slicker, Smart, Snide, Spry), افتابی (Shiny, Sunny), روشن (Alight, Alive, Definite, Diaphanous, Ditinct, Eidetic, Elucidate, Explicit, Express, Intelligible, Legible, Limpid, Lucid, Perspicuous, Serene, Set, Shrill, Sunny, Unequivocal, Vivid), درخشان (Ablaze, Illustrious, Lucid, Luminous, Phosphorescent, Shiner, Shiny, Starry, Stellar), باهوش (Clever, Ingenious, Intelligent, Keen, Precocious, Sagacious, Shrewd, Smart, Spiffy, Spry, Swish, Understanding). (various references) | |
Finnish | loistava (brilliant, glorious brilliant, magnificent, shining, splendid). (various references) | |
French | clair (broad), vif (brisk), lumineux, luisant (brilliant), brillant (brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant). (various references) | |
Frisian | ljocht (clear, light). (various references) | |
German | hell (blond, brightly, brilliantly, broad, clear, fair, flaming, great, high pitched, intelligent, light, light-colored, lucid, pale, pure, ringing, sheer, smart, stark, utter, vivid), blank (bare, blanks, brilliant, broke, clean, coatless, liquid, naked, pure, sheer, shining, shiny, utter), licht (candela, candle, candlepower, clear, genius, lamp, light, sparse, thin), intelligent (brightly, intelligent, intelligently, intenationale Bediener, international operator, sagacious, smart). (various references) | |
Greek | στιλπνό (glazed, granité, supercalendered), υποσχόμενος, χωρίς μεταχρωματισμό, ευφυήσ (clever, ingenious, subtile, subtle, witty), λαμπρόσ (brilliant, glorious, gorgeous, radiant, refulgent, sheeny, shining, splendid), λαμπερόσ (glowing, lucent, shiny), λαμπερός (brilliant, resplendent, twinkling), λαμπερ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פקח (brainy, clever, inspector, intelligent, overseer, prudent, sage, sharp, shrewd, smart, superintendent, supervisor, warden), זיוני (fresh), בהיר (clear, fair, limpid, lucid, manifest, vivid), בהוק (flashing), צהור, נהיר (clear). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fényes (glorious, glossy, illustrious, lustrous, pompous, refulgent, satiny, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sumptuous), világos (as clear as daylight, as easy as falling off a log, broad, clear, clear-cut, crystal clear, distinct, explicit, it is clear that, lager, legible, light, lightning-like, lucid, luminous, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, self-evident, simple, that is easy to see, transparent, white), okos (advised, brainy, canny, clever, cunning, judicious, nimble, nimble-minded, nimble-witted, prudent, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, wise). (various references) | |
Indonesian | binar, ringan (buoyant, mild), gemilang (brilliant, glittering, overwhelming, shining, sparkling), cerlang (gleaming), cerah (shiny, sunny), cemerlang (brilliant, dazzling, gleaming, sparkle). (various references) | |
Irish | geal (blank, clear, light, white). (various references) | |
Italian | brillante (brilliant, diamond, refulgent, refulgently, scintilating, shining, shiny, slick, smart, snappy, splendit, starry), luminoso (brilliant, clear, light, luminous). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 明るい (cheerful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうしょうたる (clear, obvious, plain), さんさんたる (brilliant), さんらんたる (brilliant, radiant), つやつやした (glossy), つやつや (glossy, slick), せんれい (age of a vessel, baptism, gorgeous, precedent, resplendent beauty, vivid), りこう (clever, discharge, fulfillment, implementation, intelligent, performance, science and technology, sharp, shrewd, wise), ろうろうたる (clear, resonant, sonorous, tired out), あかあか (bright red, brightly lit, lit up), あかるい (cheerful), めいろう (cheerful, clear), らんたる (brilliant), はればれ (cheerful), えいめい (brilliant, clear-sighted, English name of plants and animals, fame, glory, intelligent, reputation, wise). (various references) | |
Korean | 밝은 (sunny). (various references) | |
Manx | sullyr (clear, limpid, resplendent), sollys (brilliant, clear, lamp, light, resplendent, shining, shiny, transparent), lossanagh (aglow, auroral, blazing, flaming, flaring, genial, impassioned, inflamed, inflammable, luminous, phosphorescent, varnish), lonragh (efflugent, glistening, glowing), gial (clear, fulgent, light-coloured, shining, snowy, white), bioyr (breezy, brisk, frisky, graphic, lively, nippy, smart, soulstirring, spirited, spry, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, vivid as imagination, volatile), bio (activated, afloat, alive, hot, lifelike, live, live person, pictorial, spring tide after neap). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightbray.(various references) | |
Polish | jasny (clear, light). (various references) | |
Portuguese | brilhante (ablaze, agleam, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glaring, glowing, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, lustrous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid), claro (articulate, broad, certain, clean, clear, clearly, distinct, evident, fair, flyaway, fresh, light, lightsome, limpid, lucent, lucid, luculent, neat, obvious, open, open-and-shut, overt, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainspoken, pure, self-explanatory, simple, slip-on, specific, tangible, transparent, transpicuous, unambiguous, unclouded, unequivocal, unmistakable, water-repellent, watertight). (various references) | |
Quechua | chiraw-mit'a (clear or bright season). (various references) | |
Romanian | bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, proper, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), nemaipomenit (abject, bully, egregious, lovely, lumme, magnificent, nut, priceless, sad, tremendous, unbelievable, unheard of, unparalleled, unprecedented), învãpãiat (fiery, flaming, hot), aprins (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, broad, clean, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, incisive, legible, level headed, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable), deştept (able, active, awake, brainy, canny, clever man, cunning, cute, intelligent, patent, wise man), favorabil (advantageous, appreciative, appreciatory, auspicious, convenient, Dexter, fair, favorable, favorably, favored, favourable, favourably, favoured, fortunate, friendly, genial, genially, good, happy, inclinable, kindly, large, lucky, propitious, suited, towardly), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, lively, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), limpede (avowedly, clear, crystal, definite, distinct, evident, expressly, fair, honest, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, manifestly, nakedly, obvious, overt, patently, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, precise, pure, serene, sheer, sure), lucios (glossy, lustrous, polished, shiny, sleek), lucitor (expressive, flaming, lustrous, shining, sparkling), înfocat (ardent, eager, enthusiastic, fervid, fiery, heated, hectic, hot, hot stuff, passionate, proud, red-hot), minunat (beautiful, beautifully, best, brave, capital, champion, charming, delightfully, exceptional, jolly, lovely, magic, magical, marvellous, miraculous, paradisaic, paradisaical, passing, proud, royal, special, splendid, strange, superb, superbly, supernatural, tiptop, wonderful, wonder-working), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), optimist (buoyant, elastic, hopeful, optimist, optimistic, resilient, sanguine), prielnic (auspicious, Dexter, fair, favorable, favourable, wholesome), promiţãtor (promising), sclipitor (brilliant, brilliantly, flaming, flashy, fulgent, gleaming, shining), spiritual (clever, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, ghostly, humorous, humoursome, immaterial, ingeniously, mental, moral, neat, sacerdotal, sacred, smart, spirited, spiritual, witty), strãlucit (brilliant, brilliantly, gorgeous, illustrious, luminous), strãlucitor (ablaze, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, vivid), strãveziu (clear, fine-spun, gauzy, lucent, pellucid, perspicuous, pure, semipellucid, translucent, transpicuous), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), luminos (brilliant, candent, cheerful, clear, glorious, glowing, happy, light, lightsome, living, lucent, lucid, luminous, serene). (various references) | |
Russian | яркий;блестящий, яркий (clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, psychedelic, shiny, showy, sinewy, sunbright, vivid, zippy), светлый (clear, fair, light, lucid, roseate), сообразительный (acute, gumptious, keen-witted, nimble, peart, quick, quick-witted, ready made, ready-witted, sagacious, smart, spry), смышленый (quick-witted). (various references) | |
Scottish | soilleir (clear, evident, limpid, transparent, visible), loinneil (beautiful, elegant), loinnear, dealrach (radiant, shining). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bistar (clear, comprehensive, limpid, nimble, orient, pellucid), svetao (light, lucent, luminous, orient, shiny), sjajan (beaming, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous), jasan (broad, clear, distinct, downright, manifest, obvious, perspicuous, plain, sharp cut, vivid), jarki (burning, hot), žarki (ardent, fervent, fervid, hot, torrid, tropic, zealous). (various references) | |
Spanish | claro (apparent, break, bright interval, broad, celestial, clean-cut, clear, clear-cut, clearing, clearly, crystal clear, dainty, definite, direct, discharged, distinct, evident, fair, gap, glade, it is clear, light, lightsome, liquid, obvious, of course, opening, pellucid, plain, precise, rift, sure, thin, transparent, unshadowed, weak), magnífico (beautiful, brilliant, champion, crackerjack, grand, great, lovely, magnific, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, nailing, royal, splendid, superb, super-duper), luminoso (lighting, lucent, luminous, shining). (various references) | |
Swedish | ljus (blond, candela, candle, candlepower, clear, fair, fair-haired, gay, glim, light, lights, lightsome, lucid, luminary, luminous, pale), klar (clear, clear-cut, distinct, explicit, limpid, liquid, lucid, luminous, obvious, patent, perspicuous, plain, ready, set, sharp, Square, undoubted), blank (blank, shiny, sleek, slick, smooth, unshaded, white). (various references) | |
Thai | ฉุกคิดขึ้นมา (get a bright idea). (various references) | |
Turkish | berrak (brillant, clear, crystalline, distinct, just, limpid, liquid, lucent, lucid, obvious, pellucid, plain, serene, silvery, speaking, unclouded), zeki (apt, as fresh as paint, astute, brainy, brilliant, clear, clever, cute, discerning, ingenious, intellectual, intelligent, keen, keen-witted, longheaded, luminous, neat, nifty, nimble-witted, penetrating, penetrative, perceptional, perspicacious, quick of comprehension, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, sapient, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart, sparkling, spiritual, subtile, subtle, understanding), parlak (aglow, ardent, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), görkemli (brave, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, gallant, gorgeous, grandiose, imperial, magnificent, majestic, olympian, palatial, pompous, proud, puffy, queenlike, queenly, refulgent, splendid, stately, sublime, sumptuous), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), aydınlık (air shaft, airway, brightly, clear, daylight, enlightenment, high speed, illumination, light, light-well, luminous, radiance, skylight, sunlit, sunny), şanlı (glorious, renowned), açik (above-board, absence, clear, clearly, deficiency, deficit, distinct, free, lack, light, obvious, of course, open, plain, serene, shortage, shortcoming, sincere, unbiased, unchecked, untroubled, vacant), ışıltılı (ablaze, agleam, shining). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | яскраво (aglow, brightly, gaily), яскравий (brilliant, catchy, cheesy, colorful, colourful, flamboyant, flaming, florid, garish, gorgeous, high-colored, high-coloured, illustrious, lightsome, noisy, obvious, oriental, pictorial, picturesque, powerful, quicksilver, sober, starry, vivid), світлий (blonde, candid, clear, light, lightsome, whitish), сприятливий (accessory, advantageous, auspicious, benefic, benign, conducive, conducive to, congenial, contributory, favorable, favourable, fortunate, kindly, opportune, profitable, propitious, prosperous, subservient, white), райдужний (iridescent, rainbow), чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, proper, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), чистий (absolute, austere, blank, chaste, childlike, clean, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, neat, net, pristine, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), здібний (apt, capable, clever, cunning), блискуче (brightly, sensationally), прозорий (clear, crystal clear, crystalline, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, liquid, pellucid, perspicuous, see through, sheer, transparent, unclouded). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thông minh (apprehensive, aptly, comprehensive, intelligent, sagacious, sharp-witted), sáng ngời (irradiant, lucid, radiant, radiantly), sáng chói tươi sáng sủa; rạng rỡ (brightly), sáng chói (brilliant, dazzling, glaring, glaringly, glary, irradiant, lucent, luminous, radiant), sáng (luminous, shining, shiny), nhanh trí vui tươi lanh lợi, hoạt bát (alert, chipper, chirpy, dapper, mercurial, quick, spry, up-and-coming, vivacious, volatile). (various references) | |
Welsh | trybelid (brilliant), siriol (cheerful, pleasant), pefr (beautiful, radiant), llathr (glossy, smooth), llachar (brilliant, flashing), hoyw (alert, gay, homosexual, lively, spritely), gloyw (clear, glossy, shiny), eirian (beautiful), disglair (brilliant), claer (clear, shining), cannaid (luminous, white). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | babbar. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | phoibos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | candens, candida, candidatos, candido, candidus, clara, clare, clarissimus, clarius, clarus, illustris, inlustrem, inlustris, lucida, lucidissimum, lucidius, lucidum, lucidus, luminosus, nitidiores, nitidius, nitidus, perspicuus, praeclara, praeclaram, praeclaras, praeclarior, praeclaris, praeclaritas, praeclarus, sereno, serenum. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | hvanvañtem, raêvañt, xshôithnîm. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | beorht, scir. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | net. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 17, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Wsper gar h astraph h astraptousa ek thV up ouranon eiV thn up ouranon lampei outwV estai kai o uioV tou anqrwpou en th hmera autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Nam sicut fulgur coruscans de sub caelo in ea quae sub caelo sunt fulget ita erit Filius hominis in die sua |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Witodlice swa se ligræsc lyhtende scinð under heofone on þa ðing þe under heofone synt: swa bið mannes sunu on his dæge; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | For as leyt schynynge from vndur heuene schyneth in to tho thingis that ben vndur heuene, so schal mannus sone be in his dai. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | For as the lyghtenynge that apereth out of the one parte of the heven and shyneth vnto the other parte of heven: Soo shall the sonne of man be in his dayes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For as the lightning that lighteneth from the one part under heaven, shineth to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 17, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Kay maingon nga ang kilat magakilab ug pagadan-agan niini ang langit gikan sa usa ka bahin ngadto sa laing bahin, maingon man usab unya ang Anak sa Tawo sa iyang adlaw. |
| Chinese | 因 為 人 子 在 他 降 臨 的 日 子 、 好 像 閃 電 、 從 天 這 邊 一 閃 、 直 照 到 天 那 邊 。 |
| Croatian | Jer kao što munja sijevne na jednom kraju obzorja i odbljesne na drugom, tako æe biti i sa Sinom Èovjeèjim u Dan njegov. |
| Danish | Thi ligesom Lynet, når det lyner fra den ene Side af Himmelen, skinner til den anden Side af Himmelen, således skal Menneskesønnen være på sin Dag. |
| Dutch | Want gelijk de bliksem, die van het ene einde onder den hemel bliksemt, tot het andere onder den hemel schijnt, alzo zal ook de Zoon des mensen wezen in Zijn dag. |
| Finnish | Sillä niinkuin salaman leimaus loistaa taivaan äärestä taivaan ääreen, niin on Ihmisen Poika päivänänsä oleva. |
| French | Car, comme l`éclair resplendit et brille d`une extrémité du ciel à l`autre, ainsi sera le Fils de l`homme en son jour. |
| German | Denn wie der Blitz oben vom Himmel blitzt und leuchtet über alles, was unter dem Himmel ist, also wird des Menschen Sohn an seinem Tage sein. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebagaimana kilat memancar di langit, dan bercahaya dari ujung ke ujung, begitulah juga nanti keadaan Anak Manusia pada hari-Nya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena seperti kilat yang berkilat daripada satu ujung langit kepada ujung yang lain, demikian juga keadaan Anak manusia pada hari-Nya itu. |
| Italian | Perché come il lampo, guizzando, brilla da un capo all'altro del cielo, così sarà il Figlio dell'uomo nel suo giorno. |
| Latvian | Jo kâ zem debesîm uzliesmojis zibens apspîd to, kas zem debesîm ir, tâ bûs Cilvçka Dçls savâ dienâ. |
| Maori | Ka rite hoki ki te uira e hoko mai ana i tetahi wahi i raro o te rangi: a tiaho atu ana ki tetahi atu wahi i raro o te rangi; e pera ano te Tama a te tangata a tona ra. |
| Norwegian | For likesom lynet, når det lyner, skinner fra himmelbryn til himmelbryn, således skal Menneskesønnen være på sin dag. |
| Portuguese | pois, assim como o relâmpago, fuzilando em uma extremidade do céu, ilumina até a outra extremidade, assim será também o Filho do homem no seu dia. |
| Rumanian | Cqci, cum iese fulgerul wi lumineazq dela o margine a cerului pknq la cealaltq, awa va fi wi Fiul omului kn ziua Sa. |
| Russian | ЙВП, ЛБЛ НПМОЙС, УЧЕТЛОХЧЫБС ПФ ПДОПЗП ЛТБС ОЕВБ, ВМЙУФБЕФ ДП ДТХЗПЗП ЛТБС ОЕВБ, ФБЛ ВХДЕФ уЩО юЕМПЧЕЮЕУЛЙК Ч ДЕОШ уЧПК. |
| Shuar | Wi, Aents Ajasuitjiana nu Tátinian tsawantur jeamtai paant Wáitkiattarme. Peem péetuk Ashí nayaimpin Tsáapnin awajna Núnisan wi taamu paant átatui. |
| Spanish | Porque como el relámpago que resplandece ilumina el cielo de un extremo al otro, así también será el Hijo del Hombre en su día. |
| Swahili | Kwa maana kama vile umeme unavyotokea ghafla na kuangaza anga upande mmoja hadi mwingine, ndivyo Mwana wa Mtu atakavyokuwa siku yake. |
| Swedish | Ty såsom ljungelden, när den ljungar fram, lyser från himmelens ena ända till den andra, så skall det vara med Människosonen på hand dag. |
| Uma | Apa' ane rata nculii' mpu'u-apa mpai', karata-ku incana hobo' hi dunia'. Hewa kila' mpohinii raoa ngkai wuntu-na hamali rata hi wuntu-na hamali, hewa toe wo'o mpai' hi eo karataa-ku, Aku' Ana' Manusia'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bright": brighten, brightened, brightener, brighteners, brightening, brightens, brighter, brightest, brightly, brightness, brightnesses, brights, brightwork, brightworks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bright": eyebright, overbright, superbright, unbright. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bright": eyebrights. (additional references) | |
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"Bright" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beigh, beruhrt, braht, Braigh, Breuhat, bricht, brift, briget, Brigh, Brighde, brighte, brights, briht, brocht, Brychta, byrite, oright, sright. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bright" (pronounced brī"t) |
| 3 | -r ī" t | alright, contrite, forthright, fright, outright, overwrite, rewrite, right, rite, sprite, trite, upright, Wright, write. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-h-i-r-t" | |
-1 letter: bight, birth, girth, grith, right. | |
-2 letters: brig, brit, girt, grit, thir, trig. | |
-3 letters: big, bit, ghi, gib, git, hit, rib, rig. | |
-4 letters: bi, hi, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-h-i-r-t" | |
+1 letter: brights. | |
+2 letters: berthing, birthing, blighter, brighten, brighter, brightly, unbright. | |
+3 letters: blighters, bothering, breathing, brightens, brightest, eyebright, throbbing. | |
+4 letters: bethorning, betrothing, bighearted, birthright, blathering, blethering, blithering, breathings, brightened, brightener, brightness, brightwork, brothering, burthening, butchering, eyebrights, overbright, thimblerig. | |
+5 letters: birthrights, brachiating, brighteners, brightening, brightworks, bullfighter, hibernating, inbreathing, prohibiting, superbright, thimblerigs. | |
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