glimmer
pronunciation
How to pronounce glimmer in British English:
UK [ˈglɪmə(r)]
How to pronounce glimmer in American English:
US [ˈɡlɪmɚ]
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- Noun:
- a flash of light (especially reflected light)
- a slight suggestion or vague understanding
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- Verb:
- shine brightly, like a star or a light
Word Origin
- glimmer
- glimmer: see gleam
- glimmer (v.)
- late 14c., "to shine brightly;" early 15c., "to shine dimly," perhaps from or related to Middle Dutch glimmen, Middle Low German glimmern, from an extended (frequentative?) form of Proto-Germanic *glim-, root of Old English glæm "brightness" (see gleam (n.)). Sense shifted 15c. to "shine faintly." Compare Dutch glimmeren, German glimmeren "to shine dimly." Related: Glimmered; glimmering.
- glimmer (n.)
- 1580s, "a faint, wavering light," from glimmer (v.).
Synonym
Example
- 1. Gold 's glimmer still lights a trail of devastation .
- 2. One glimmer of hope appears with china 's new leadership .
- 3. I looked at her and felt a glimmer of hope .
- 4. After so many long years of hopelessness , they represent a small glimmer of light for the people of a dark land .
- 5. The future that is beginning to glimmer on the horizon has better rules of engagement in our financial systems and a greater commitment to the common good .