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aglitter

/əˈɡlɪtɚ/

aglitter adjective: glittering.

Adjective

aglitter (not comparable)

  1. Glittering.
    • The grass must have been growing during the night, for it is tickling our bare ankles; and sure of all coolness, none so refreshing to the frame as that which follows one’s foot-prints on meadow aglitter with morning dews.1832 July, John Wilson, “Christopher at the Lakes”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 32, number 196, page 121
    • a light buggy, all aglitter from point to point of its natty furnishings, drew up at our gate1912, Mary Austin, chapter 4, in A Woman of Genius, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 38

Examples of aglitter in a sentence

  • […] by now his black eyes were aglitter with stars.1968, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 1, in Nova, New York: Vintage, published 2002, page 14:
  • The blacksmith was long gone, his ironwork aglitter like a gate to heaven.2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 89:

Origin of aglitter

From a- + glitter.

Words that rhyme with aglitter

Questions about aglitter

What does aglitter mean?
Aglitter means glittering.
How do you use aglitter in a sentence?
[…] by now his black eyes were aglitter with stars.
What part of speech is aglitter?
Aglitter is an adjective.
How do you pronounce aglitter?
Aglitter is pronounced /əˈɡlɪtɚ/.

Words near aglitter in the dictionary

  1. Aglipayanism
  2. Aglipayano
  3. Aglipayanos
  4. Aglipayans
  5. aglisten
  6. aglitter
  7. aglomerate
  8. aglomerative
  9. aglomerular
  10. agloo
  11. agloos

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