glitter
pronunciation
How to pronounce glitter in British English:
UK [ˈɡlɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce glitter in American English:
US [ˈɡlɪtər]
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- Noun:
- the quality of glittering or sparkling brightly
- the occurrence of a small flash or spark
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- Verb:
- be shiny, as if wet
Word Origin
- glitter
- glitter: [14] Glitter goes back to a Germanic *glit-, denoting ‘shining, bright’, which also produced German glitzern ‘sparkle’ (source of English glitz) and gleissen ‘glisten’ and Swedish glittra ‘glitter’. English probably acquired it via Old Norse glitra.=> glitz
- glitter (v.)
- c. 1300, glideren (late 14c. as gliteren), from an unrecorded Old English word or from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse glitra "to glitter," from Proto-Germanic *glit- "shining, bright" (cognates: Old English glitenian "to glitter, shine; be distinguished," Old High German glizzan, German glitzern, Gothic glitmunjan), from PIE *ghleid- (cognates: Greek khlidon, khlidos "ornament"), from root *ghel- (2) "to shine," with derivatives referring to bright materials and gold (see glass (n.)). Related: Glittered; glittering. Other Middle English words for "to glitter" include glasteren and glateren.
- glitter (n.)
- c. 1600, "sparkling or scintillating light," from glitter (v.). As "sparkling powdery substance" used in ornamentation, by 1956. Glitter rock is from 1972.
Example
- 1. Use markers , glitter and construction paper to decorate the tube .
- 2. Careful lighting was crucuial to show the diamond-like glitter of the crystals .
- 3. Use buttons , glitter , stickers and markers to decorate the can .
- 4. It was a halfway life , congenial enough , but with neither glitter nor grandeur .
- 5. We look at the glitter of the paint , where kalf has captured the translucent sheen of glass , at the curving brightness of his lemon peel , the rugged texture of the woven fabric .