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Definition: Glimmering |
GlimmeringAdjective1. Shining softly and intermittently; "the glimmering mist of a spring rain splashed by sun and streaked by rainbow"- Claudia Cassidy; "glimmering candlelight". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glimmering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: GlimmeringSynonym: glimmery (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignorance | See through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, have a glimmering; Noun: wonder whether; not know what to make of; (unintelligibility); not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say. |
Smattering, sciolism, glimmering, dilettantism; bewilderment; (uncertainty); incapacity. | |
Knowledge | Light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression; (idea); discovery; a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glimmering |
| English words defined with "glimmering": Aglimmer ♦ Crepusculous ♦ glimmery ♦ Owllight. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glimmering": Owllight. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Have you ever seen it, Aragorn? The White Tower of Ecthelion, glimmering like a spike of pearl and silver, its banners caught high in the morning breeze (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
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| "Plant 2" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "With the light glimmering through on it's leaves (lat. Adansonia digitata)." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | His eyes, however, were soon greeted by a little, glimmering light, which, at first a long way off, was approaching up the street |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Night was falling, the plain was cold and bare, thick purple mists were rising in the glimmering twilight |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And the glimmering souls passed away, sustained and failing, merged in a moving breath |
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| "Glimmering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Glimmering" is used about 45 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 53.33% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24.44% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
fish glimmering gold | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "glimmering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vezullim (glance, twinkle), fije (cord, fiber, fibre, leaf, none, sheet of paper, string, thread, wire, wisp, yarn), dritëz (glimmer). (various references) | |
Arabic | لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), الوان براقة, بريق (blaze, brightness, burnish, flame, glance, gleam, glitter, gloss, loudness, luster, opalescence, refulgence, sheen, shine, spark, twinkle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мъждукане (blinking, flicker, glimmer), блещукане (flicker, gleam, glimmer, scintillation, shimmer, twinkle, twinkling), проблясък (flight, glance, glimmer, glint). (various references) | |
Chinese | 熒 (dazzling, glimmer, perplexed, Polyeonatum officinale), 发出微光 (Glimmered). (various references) | |
Czech | mihotající se. (various references) | |
Finnish | kimallus (glittering). (various references) | |
French | scintillant (glistening, glittering), lueur (glance, gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glow), chatoyant (gleaming), éclat (glamor, glare, glimmer, glitter, glory, gloss, glossiness, glow). (various references) | |
German | schimmernd (gleaming, lustrous, opalescent, shimmering), flimmernd (wavy). (various references) | |
Greek | φέγγοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | הבהוב (flickering, glimmer, scorching, singeing), נצנוץ (flash, flickering, gleam, glimmer, glint, glistening, glitter, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csillogó (coruscating, glistening, glittering, light, lustrous, Orient, resplendent, shining, shiny, spangly, starry). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immeringglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | reflexo (glance, glimmer, glisten, ray, reflection, reflective, reflex, reflexion, reflexive, repercussion), brilho fraco. (various references) | |
Russian | смутное представление (dim idea, hazy idea, misty idea, opacity), тусклое свечение, мерцание (fibrillation, flicker, flickering, glimmer, scintillance, scintillation, twinkle, twinkling), проблеск (flash, gleam, glimpse, peep). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svetlucav (gleaming, glistening). (various references) | |
Turkish | hafif parıldama. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glimmering": glimmerings. (additional references) | |
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"Glimmering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glimm'ring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glimmering" (pronounced gli"mering) |
| 5 | -i" m er i ng | shimmering, simmering. |
| 4 | -m er i ng | clamoring, hammering, murmuring. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-i-l-m-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: immerging. | |
-2 letters: immingle. | |
-3 letters: gemming, gingeli, gliming, glimmer, gremlin, griming, lemming, lingier, merging, mingier, mingler, niggler, rimming. | |
-4 letters: gieing, gimmie, ginger, girlie, inlier, leggin, limier, liming, limmer, limner, linger, linier, megrim, merlin, miggle, miming, mingle, miring, niggle, riling, riming. | |
-5 letters: genii, gimel, gimme, glime, grime, imine, ingle, iring, liger, limen, liner, miler, mimer, miner, minim. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-i-l-m-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: glimmerings. | |
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