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glimmering

glimmering is the present participle and gerund of glimmer.

Meaning of glimmer

Verb

glimmer (third-person singular simple present glimmers, present participle glimmering, simple past and past participle glimmered)

  1. (intransitive) To shine with a faint, unsteady light.
    • the glimmering dawn a glimmering lamp

See all 6 meanings of glimmer

Noun

glimmering (plural glimmerings)

  1. A glimmer.
    • The pale, chill glimmering of earliest morning was faint in the east, from which the clouds were slowly breaking; there was just light enough to enable her to find her way.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 366
    • When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her. Moreover, from her earliest days the bairn had some glimmerings of grace.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

Forms of glimmering

pluralglimmerings

Words formed from glimmering

Questions about glimmering

What does glimmering mean?
Glimmering means a glimmer.
What is glimmering the present participle and gerund of?
Glimmering is the present participle and gerund of glimmer.
What part of speech is glimmering?
Glimmering is a noun.
What is the plural of glimmering?
The plural of glimmering is glimmerings.

Words near glimmering in the dictionary

  1. glimmered
  2. glimmerer
  3. glimmerers
  4. glimmerier
  5. glimmeriest
  6. glimmering
  7. glimmeringly
  8. glimmerings
  9. glimmerite
  10. glimmerites
  11. glimmeritic

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