Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective Brightly shining.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Gleaming; in a gleaming state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Gleaming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Glowing withsubdued light.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bright with a steady but subdued shining
Etymologies
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Examples
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At last the great night arrived, and Mistletoe Manor was agleam with lights and alive with guests, and aglow with gaiety.
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They see only the empty, moon-washed lawn agleam with winter frost behind the cheery, reflected glow of the fire that warms my bedchamber.
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They see only the empty, moon-washed lawn agleam with winter frost behind the cheery, reflected glow of the fire that warms my bedchamber.
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"We'll have to get you a proper bra," she says, eyes agleam, kneading the subject's mammaries, sometimes heaving them apart and hoisting them aloft for good measure.
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She bent over the desk, her dark hair agleam with the golden haze of the final lingering rays of light.
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“As though you had the choice of it,” she mocked, but her gaze darted toward the castle, the roof faintly agleam as dawn crept stealthily into the sky.
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And every street was agleam, as if Dwaraka were truly lined with gold!
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“As though you had the choice of it,” she mocked, but her gaze darted toward the castle, the roof faintly agleam as dawn crept stealthily into the sky.
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“As though you had the choice of it,” she mocked, but her gaze darted toward the castle, the roof faintly agleam as dawn crept stealthily into the sky.
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The late-afternoon light broke through the clouds, shining on the box and setting it agleam.
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