Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sparkling or glistening light.
- n. Brilliant or showy, often superficial attractiveness.
- n. Small pieces of light-reflecting decorative material.
- v. To sparkle brilliantly; glisten. See Synonyms at flash.
- v. To sparkle coldly or malevolently: eyes that glittered at the prospect of revenge.
- v. To be brilliantly, often deceptively, attractive.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To shine or gleam with scattered light; emit scintillating flashes of light; sparkle; glisten: as, a glittering sword.
- Hence—2. To be brilliant or showy; be attractive from showiness: as, the glittering scenes of a court.
- Synonyms Glisten, Gleam, etc. See glare, intransitive verb
- n. Sparkling or scintillating light; brilliancy; splendor; luster: as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
- n. A talus slope.
Wiktionary
- n. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
- n. A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
- v. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam; as, a glittering sword.
- v. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive; as, the glittering scenes of a court.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
- v. To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
- n. A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be shiny, as if wet
- n. the occurrence of a small flash or spark
- n. the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
Etymologies
- Middle English gliteren, to sparkle, from Old Norse glitra; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Finally, if you can produce the word glitter, go all out!”
“It's not when the festival's organizer invites everyone back to his grandmother's house, where his father shakes your hand and his mother presents a traditional homecooked dinner; it's not even when the said organizer is shirtless, crowd-surfing and covered in glitter at the afterparty.”
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“As for the cover, crazy hot pink and glitter is exactly what Tammy would have chose!”
“Do you know how you show your appreciation for a man who has covered half of his upper body in glitter?”
“Taken your 3-7 year-old-girl for a make-over at one of those stores that drowns the girl in glitter, gives them a mani-pedi and helps them "discover" the joys of being a girl;”
“Others are hole-punched in glitter paper, and others are swirled with polymark or scribbles paint and glitter glue.”
“Morasca said of her wrestling experience, Everyone is covered in glitter and makeup and stuff and then goes and beats the crap out of each other.”
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“John Burdett on Beautiful Children by Charles Bock: Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.”
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“Below, you see the card stock weight cut-outs, outlined in glitter glue, with extra glitter sprinkled on.”
“Other cards are outlined in glitter glue with added glitter, and a clippings from card catalogs and seed catalogs.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glitter’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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FUN - Jeeves and Wooster - Wooster
"Woosterisms" as heard from the character " Wooster" in P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster" stories.
be potty about, be tutted at, biff, big fella, bit of a cropper, blighter, blot, By gee!, By gosh!, By gum!, chilled steel, chokey and 115 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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henryar's list
marmoleum, menagerie, cyan, ochre, pilfer, discombobulate, loquacious, iridescent, amethyst, derelict, botulism, equilibrium and 240 more...
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color (multi)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, multi, descriptive, randomness )pastel, rainbow, gemstone, crystals, ore, minerals, elements, neon, northern lights, fur, sunset, sunrise and 98 more...
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
abduct, abducting, abductor, Achaea, Achaean, Achilles, advise, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Aegina, aegis, Aeneas and 713 more...
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MissEasyBreezy's list
enthasy, euphoria, fantasy, spellbind, neurotic, ecstatic, radiance, aura, innocence, glitter, glow, aurora and 26 more...
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bling
( open list, visual, light, descriptive )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/dynamic
even more:
glisten, gleam, sparkle, shine, shimmer, gloss, pearly, opalescent, iridescent, prismatic, multifaceted, glow and 36 more... -
I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 29 more...
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Childhood
Hula-Hoop, fairies, twirl, twinkle, glitter, candyland, firefly, June bug, wonderland, Alice-in-Wonderland, bedtime stories, spelling bee and 27 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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Pretty Words
Words that sound pretty.
ethereal, ephemeral, iridescent, shimmer, wisp, whisper, charisma, crescent, azure, mystery, fantasy, miracle and 142 more...
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Star Verbs
Tweets
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