| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  gl m |
| NOUN: | 1. A brief beam or flash of light: saw gleams of daylight through the cracks. 2. A steady but subdued shining; a glow: the gleam of burnished gold. 3. A brief or dim indication; a trace: a gleam of intelligence. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: gleamed, gleam·ing, gleams
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To emit a gleam; flash or glow: “It shone with gold and gleamed with ivory” (Edith Hamilton). See synonyms at flash. 2. To be manifested or indicated briefly or faintly. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To cause to emit a flash of light. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English glem, from Old English gl m. See ghel-2 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | gleam er —NOUN
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