agleam
/əˈɡliːm/
agleam adjective: glowing with subdued light.
Adjective
agleam (not comparable)
- Glowing with subdued light.
- She was on her knees with her arms round Andrew's neck before he could prevent her. Her eyes were tearfully agleam, as, audibly reckless, she sobbed[.]1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 159
- [Magazine staffer about his political team:] Pencils at the ready, keen brains agleam behind intelligent horn rims, these experts spread out to ravel the loose ends of White-Housing, web-spinning spiders for [the presidential candidate].1960 May 28, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 149
Origin of agleam
From a- + gleam.
Words that rhyme with agleam
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upstream
- deem
- dream
- scream
- team
- academe
- bream
- downstream
- esteem
- forebeam
- supreme
- teem
- A team
- ice cream
- under one's own steam
- abeam
- addeem
- astream
- beseem
- centime
- decime
- deme
- fleam
- inseam
- Karim
- preem
- rheme
- seem
- breme
- buffer beam
- distream
- foredream
- haem
- heme
- Kareem
- kilim
- leam
- leme
- let off steam
- meem
- misesteem
- misseem
- neem
- on stream
- prime
- redream
- reem
- reim
Questions about agleam
- What does agleam mean?
- Agleam means glowing with subdued light.
- What part of speech is agleam?
- Agleam is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce agleam?
- Agleam is pronounced /əˈɡliːm/.
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