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From the museum window we could see a neon sign with PSFS in bright letters on one of the high-rise downtown buildings.

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  1. adjective Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; shining.
  2. adjective Comparatively high on the scale of brightness.
  3. adjective Full of light or illumination: a bright sunny day; a stage bright with spotlights.
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  • From the museum window we could see a neon sign with PSFS in bright letters on one of the high-rise downtown buildings. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • Her voice sounded over - bright, and her smile rather too determined as she turned to face him. —  Rome's Revenge
  • /She yanks my freckles, my towhead out of hiding,/smearing my body in bright orange paint and profanity,/flinging open my cupboards and sneering,/What's in the shoebox? —  I Have to go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl
  • He ordered their mother to keep them quiet. —  The Witness
  • "And They, theirs," she retorted. —  Wings in the Night
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English beorht; see bherəg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bright, briht, etc., from Anglo-Saxon bryht, briht, transposed forms of the usual beorht = Old Saxon berht, beraht = Old High German beraht, bereht, Middle High German berht (in G. remaining only in proper names, Albrecht, Ruprecht, etc.; frequently so used in Anglo-Saxon and Low German) = Icelandic bjartr = Gothic (Moesogothic) bairhts, bright; prob., with old past participle suffix -t, from Teutonic √*berh = Sanskrit √ bhrāj, shine, perhaps = Latin flag- in flagrare, flame, blaze, burn, flamma (*flagma), flame, = Greek φλέγειν, blaze, burn. Cf. black, bleak.
  2. from Middle English brighte, briʒte, brihte, from briht, bright: see bright, a.
  3. from Middle English bright, brigt, from Anglo-Saxon byrhtu, birhtu (= Old High German berahti), feminine, beorht, neuter, brightness, from beorht, bright: see bright, a.
  4. from Middle English brighten, brihten (with reg. infinitive suffix -en), from Anglo-Saxon byrhtan, be bright, geberhtan, make bright (= Old High German giberehtōn = Gothic (Moesogothic) gabairhtjan, make bright), from beorht, bright.
 

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