Glitter

Definition: Glitter

Glitter

Noun

1. The quality of glittering or sparkling brightly.

2. The occurrence of a small flash or spark.

Verb

1. Be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Glitter \Glit"ter\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Glittered; Glittering.]. (references)

Synonyms: Glitter

Ostentation

Noun: ostentation, display, show, flourish, parade, etalage, pomp, array, state, solemnity; dash, splash, splurge, glitter, strut, pomposity; pretense, pretensions; showing off; fuss.

Cut a figure, make a dash, make a splash, make a splurge, cut a dash, cut a splash, cut a splurge; figure, figure away; make a show, make a display; glitter.

Repute

Live, flourish, glitter, flaunt, gain honor, acquire honor; Noun: play first fiddle; (be of importance), bear the palm, bear the bell; lead the way; take precedence, take the wall of; gain laurels, win laurels, gain spurs, gain golden opinions; (approbation); take one's degree, pass one's examination.

Crosswords: Glitter

Swedish (gewgaws, glint, glitter, ice, knick-knackery, lustre, show, spangle, sparkler, tinsel).

She left me for Gary Glitter. Gary Glitter (Sliding Doors; writing credit: Peter Howitt.)

I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)

People who glitter. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

Did we get you a little? Huh? Just a little bit? Us city folk? The sin, the glitter, the wickedness (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis)

Glitter on the hallway (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

Girl you glitter like hollywood (Carlene; performing artist: Phil Vassar)

The glitter rubs right off, and you're nowhere ("On Broadway"; performing artist: The Drifters)

Gold and Glitter (1912)

Glitter Palace (2002)

The Glitter Dome (1984)

Glitter (1984)

In the Glitter Palace (1977)

I Love You Love Me Love (performing artist: Gary Glitter)

I'm The Leader Of The Gang (performing artist: Gary Glitter)

Rock & Roll (performing artist: Gary Glitter)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Blood And Glitter (reference)

• Busy Ballet School: With 20 Glitter Tattoos (Glitter Tattoos) (reference)

• Fairies Through the Year: Glitter Sticker Books (reference)

• Fluttery Butterflies: Includes 20 Glitter Tattoos (Glitter Tattoos) (reference)

• Glitter Bugs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Glitter (reference)

• Colorforms: Rescue at Glitter Palace (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Glitter [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Boston Warehouse American Glitter Fish 4-Piece Spreader Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Blinded by the glitter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost

Tommy, looking at her, gradually dropped his eyelids, until just a short glitter showed through his lashes

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Beginning with "glitter": glitter-and-glass, glitter-bug, glitter-free, glitter-loving, glitter-rock, glitter-silver, glitter-sox.

Ending with "glitter": a-glitter, earth-glitter, heaven-glitter, sword-glitter.

Albanian

xixëllon (flare, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle), xixëllin (flare, spark, sparkle), xixëllim (scintillation, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle), shkëlqim (aureola, aureole, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, distinction, eclat, effulgence, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flame, glint, glory, gloss, glow, halo, irradiation, lambency, luster, lustre, nimbus, pageantry, polish, pomp, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), shkëlqej (blaze, bloom, flame, flash, fulgurate, gild, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glory, glow, light, polish, scintillate, shed, shine), ndrit (brighten, burn, gleam, shine, sparkle, twinkle, water). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لمعان (brightness, burnish, flash, glisten, gloss, glossiness, luminosity, luster, radiance, refulgence, sheen, shine, shining), ‏لمع (beam, blaze, buff, burnish, coruscate, dazzle, enamel, flare, flash, furbish, gleam, glisten, polish, radiate, rub up, shine, sparkle), ‏توهج (blaze, fervency, fervor, fervour, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flare, flush, glow, incandesce, radiance), ‏تألق (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, dazzle, effulgence, glint, glory, irradiate, luminosity, magnificence, outshine, radiance, radiate, ray, refulgence, scintillate, shine, shine through, sparkle, star, vivacity), ‏أومض (blink, glance, glimmer, glint, glisten, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle), ‏بهارج, ‏بهاء (eclat, glory, magnificence, radiance), ‏بصيص (flicker, ray, shaft), ‏بريق (blaze, brightness, burnish, flame, glance, gleam, glimmering, gloss, loudness, luster, opalescence, refulgence, sheen, shine, spark, twinkle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лъщя (glisten, shine), блясък (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, dash, eclat, effulgence, fire, flash, glamor, glamour, glance, glint, glory, gloss, glossiness, heraldry, illumination, irradiation, lambency, light, luminance, luminosity, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), блестя (blaze, coruscate, dazzle, glance, gleam, glow, irradiate, scintillate, shine, shine out, sparkle, twinkle), пищност (flamboyance, luxuriance, pageant, pageantry, pomp, pomposity, profusion, splendor, splendour, theatricality), искря (flash, scintillate, spark, sparkle, twinkle), искрене (arcing, scintillation, sparkle). (various references)

Chinese 

闪烁 (Flickered, flickering, Gleamed, Gleaming, Glittered, Glittering, spangled, Spangling), 燦爛 . (various references)

Czech

třpytit se (blaze, coruscate, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle), třpyt (coruscation, dazzle, gleam, glint, radiance, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), lesk (brilliance, dazzle, glare, gleam, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, polish, radiance, refulgence, shimmer, shine, splendour), jiskřit (emit sparks, spark, sparkle), blýskat se (shimmer, sparkle). (various references)

Danish

glittercelle (glitter cell), Sternheimer-Malbincelle (glitter cell), metalglimmer (metallic glitter). (various references)

Dutch

metaalglitter (metallic glitter). (various references)

Farsi 

تلالو (Glint, Sparkle), تابش (Brilliance, Flame, Glint, Glow, Sheen, Shine), درخشیدن (Glint, Glisten, Glory, Lamp, Lighten, Luster, Ray, Scintillate, Sheen, Shine, Star), درخشندگی (Blaze, Brilliance, Glim, Luster, Radiance, Refulgence, Sheen), درخشش (Eclat, Luster, Scintillation, Shine, Spangle, Sparkle), برق زدن (Alight, Flash, Glisten, Lightning, Luster, Ray, Scintillate, Wink), براق شدن . (various references)

Finnish

välkkyä (flash, gleam, glimmer, sparkle), välke (brilliance, gleam), väikkyä (gleam, glimmer), kimaltaa (glimmer, sparkle), kiiltää (gleam, glisten, shine). (various references)

French

scintiller (glint), scintillement (glisten), rutiler (gleam, glow), oripeaux, chatoyer (gleam, glint, glisten), briller (gleam, glimmer, glint), étincellement, éclat (glamor, glare, glimmer, glimmering, glory, gloss, glossiness, glow). (various references)

German

glitzern (glint, glisten, sparkle, to glint, to glisten, to glitter, to twinkle, twinkle), funkeln (blaze, coruscate, flame, flash, glare, gleam, glisten, resplendence, scintillate, sparkle, to coruscate, to flash, to glitter, to scintillate, to sparkle, twinkle, twinkling). (various references)

Greek 

σπινθηροβολώ (scintillate, spark, sparkle, twinkle), γυαλίζω (burnish, polish, polish 1, polish off, rub up, sandpaper, shine), μαρμαίρω (opalesce), λάμπω (brighten, coruscate, eradiate, flare, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glow, shine, sparkle), λάμψη (brightness, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, flare, flash, glare, glint, glisten, glow, limelight, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, shine, shininess, shining, splendor, splendour, twinkle), ακτινοβολώ (beam, eradiate, glisten, irradiate, radiate, radiative, shine, twinkle), αστραφτερό στολίδι. (various references)

Hebrew 

להתנוצץ (shine, sparkle), להבהיק (brighten, glint, glisten, polish, shine), לבהוק (gleam, glow, shine), לטוש (finish, polish, sharpening), לנגוה (shine), לנצוץ (sparkle, twinkle), לנצנץ (flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle), אש (conflagration, fire, flame, heat, wrath), נצנוץ (flash, flickering, gleam, glimmer, glimmering, glint, glistening, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling). (various references)

Hungarian

szikrázó fény, csillogó fény (glint), csillogás (coruscation, flare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, lambency, resplendence, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling). (various references)

Indonesian

kemegahan (eclat, splendor), berkilau (candied, garish, lucid, orient), berkilap (lucid, orient), berapi-ap (furious, sparkle), belau (flitcker). (various references)

Italian

scintillare (flash, scintilate, scintillate, shine, spark, sparkle, twinkle), risplendere (shine, sparkle), luccichio (twinkle), luccicare (gleam, glint, glisten, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle), fronzoli (finery, frippery, spangle), brillare (beam, coruscate, gleam, glint, glisten, scintilate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煌めき (glimmer, sparkle, twinkle), ぎゅう詰め (at the last moment, being startled, crumpled, dazzle, disheveled, feel gloomy, feeling depressed, glare, hard, jammed, just barely, mimesis, mimicry, packed like sardines, snoringly, tight), きまり悪い (at once, being ashamed, Eek!, feeling awkward, glisten, look around restlessly, quickly, right away, sparkle, squeak, squeaking, tightly, twinkle, Yipe!), びんびん来る (sparkle, to get an erection). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎらぎら (dazzle, glare), きらきら (glisten, sparkle, twinkle), きらめき (glimmer, sparkle, twinkle), ぴかぴか (sparkle). (various references)

Korean 

반짝임 (Glisten, twinkle). (various references)

Norwegian

glitring, glitre (glint, glisten), funkle. (various references)

Pig Latin

itterglay.(various references)

Portuguese

tremeluzir (glimmer, glint, twinkle, whiffle, wink), resplendor (fire, flush, glint, glisten, halo, nimbus, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), resplandecer (blaze, bloom, flush, glare, glow), reluzir (coruscate, flash, glint, glisten, lamp, shine, sparkle), cintilar (blink, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glister, ray, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle, wink), cintilação (effulgence, flashing, glint, glisten, lambency, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle, twinkling), brilho (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, effulgence, fire, flashing, glisten, glossiness, glow, illumination, irradiation, lucidity, luster, polish, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, scintillation, shine, varnish, vivacity), brilhar (burn, flame, flash, flourish, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, glister, irradiate, lamp, lighten, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle), arder (burn, deflagrate, fire, flame, flush, glisten, glow, glow with heat, inflame, kindle, sting, tingle). (various references)

Romanian

strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fineness, fire, flame, flash, flashing, flush, gaiety, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glisten, glow, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), splendoare (bravery, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, gorgeousness, grandeur, luxuriance, magnificence, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), sclipire (brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, flare, flash, gleam, glisten, glister, sheen, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), sclipi (gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glisten, lighten, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), scânteiere (gleam, glisten, scintillation, shaft, sparkle), scânteia (coruscate, flash, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, kindle, scintillate, spark, sparkle, twinkle), lux (abundance, lux, luxury, magnificence), luciu (glaze, glory, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, sheen, shine, slippery, splendor, splendour), licãrire (blink, glance, glimmer, glimpse, glint, Ray, shimmer, spark, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle), licãri (flash, glance, gleam, glimmer, glimpse, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle, wink), fulgera (dumbfound, flash, fulminate, gleam, lighten, sparkle, strike, thunder), fast (pomposity). (various references)

Russian 

блестеть блеск (glint), блестеть (glint, glisten, glister), блеск (brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, effulgence, flash, flying colors, glint, glitz, gloss, lambency, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, resplendency, scintillation, sheen, sheens, shine, shininess, splendor, splendour), помпа (pomp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sijati (beam, gleam, glow, shine), blistati (glare), blistanje (sparkle). (various references)

Spanish

rutilar, resplandecer (bloom, glow, shine), lustre (brilliance, brilliancy, glaze, gloss, glossiness, luster, lustre, panache, polish, sheen, shoe cream, shoe polish, shoeblacking, shoeshine). (various references)

Swedish

lysa (beacon, burn, flourish, glare, gleam, glow, light, lighten, shine, twinkle), glitter (gewgaws, glint, ice, knick-knackery, lustre, show, spangle, sparkler, tinsel), glans (brightness, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, glare, glaze, glory, gloss, lambency, lustre, panache, polish, pride, resplendence, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour), glänsa (glare, glisten, shine). (various references)

Thai

แสงแวววาว (shimmer), ส่องแสงสุกใส. (various references)

Turkish

göze çarpmak (attract the attention, draw the attention, greet the eye, leap out, leap to the eye, stand out, stand out in relief), göz almak, göz alıcılık (gaiety), gösteriş (affectation, array, blazon, blazonry, dash, display, flashiness, flourish, frill, furbelows, gaiety, glossiness, ostentation, panache, parade, pomposity, pretension, pride, put on, shew, show, show off, showiness, showing off, splendidness, splurge, swank, vanity, veneer, veneering), parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parlaklık (brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, flamboyance, flame, flashiness, glazing, gleam, glossiness, gorgeousness, incandescence, irradiance, lambency, liveliness, lucency, luminescence, luminosity, luster, lustre, lustrousness, polish, radiance, resplendence, sheen, shine, sleekness, splendidness, splendor, splendour, vividness), parıltı (blink, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glisten, glow, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), parıldamak (glance, gleam, glimmer, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), pırıldamak (Bicker, gleam, shimmer, wink). (various references)

Turkmen 

яyldyramak (flash, sparkle), ьlpьldemek (flash), lowurdamak (shine, sparkle), balkyldamak (glisten). (various references)

Ukrainian

сяяти (beam, blaze, burn, coruscate, flame, radiate, shine), яскравий блиск, блищати (burnish, coruscate, glisten, shine), помпа (pomp, pump, syringe), пишність (pomp, state). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vẻ tráng lệ (gorgeousness, imperialness, magnificence, magnificentness, pomp, pomposity, pompousness), vẻ rực rỡ (glory, gorgeousness), ánh sáng lấp lánh sự lộng lẫy. (various references)

Welsh

disgleirio (shine). (various references)

effulgens, effulsit, fulgeat, fulgebat, fulgebis, fulgebunt, fulgens, fulgentis, fulgere, fulgeret, fulget, fulgura, fulgurans, fulgurantis, fulgurare, fulserint, mica, micantes, micantis, micare, micha, michas, mico, nitebantur, nitebatur, nitens, nitentes, niteo, niteris, refulgens, refulsit, rubenites, silonites, themanites, vibrabit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "glitter": glitterati, glittered, glittering, glitteringly, glitters, glittery. (additional references)

Words ending with "glitter": aglitter, outglitter. (additional references)

Words containing "glitter": outglittered, outglittering, outglitters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Glitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blitter, Gibtner, Giltar, gilte, gitte, gitter, Gittler, glater, Glatter, glite, gliter, glutter, Glyptotek, glytex, gnitteg, gritter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: litter, regilt, tilter.

-2 letters: legit, liger, liter, litre, relit, tiger, tiler, titer, title, titre, trite.

-3 letters: gelt, gilt, girl, girt, grit, lier, lire, lite, riel, rile, rite, tier, tile, tilt, tire, tirl, tret, trig.

-4 letters: erg, gel, get, gie, git, ire, leg, lei, let, lie, lit, reg, rei, ret, rig, teg, tel, tet, tie.

+1 letter: aglitter, glitters, glittery.

+2 letters: glittered, lettering, litterbag, litterbug, littering, reletting, retitling, tailgater.

+3 letters: blattering, clattering, cluttering, earthlight, flattering, flittering, fluttering, gillnetter, glitterati, glittering, graptolite, gristliest, letterings, litterbags, litterbugs, lutestring, outglitter, rebottling, replotting, resettling, rouletting, tailgaters, tolerating.

+4 letters: altercating, alternating, earthlights, elutriating, embrittling, gillnetters, graptolites, integrality, legitimator, lutestrings, maltreating, metrologist, outglitters, overletting, petrologist, poltergeist, potteringly, reallotting, relettering, reluctating, resplitting, retaliating, splattering, spluttering, straggliest, strategical, streetlight, stringently, teleporting, teratologic, tetralogies, totteringly, triangulate.