Word.ws English Dictionary

Plural of gleam

regular plural

The plural of gleam is gleams.

Forms of gleam

Singulargleam /ɡliːm/
Pluralgleams /ɡliːmz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Gleams in a sentence

  • Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New”, in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf, page 136. From the entry atilt
  • The sun above gleams like a shining jewel, but even its brightness is nothing compared to the resplendence of the Empire.2016, Kazerad, Crowdfunding Receipt Comic, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), October 31 2016. From the entry resplendence
  • His bald spot gleams like a burnished conker.2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa. From the entry conker
  • The chargers spun round each other, biting and striking, while the two blades wheeled and whizzled and circled in gleams of dazzling light.2008, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company. From the entry whizzle
  • Oh, the world's remote from my existence, unless all that appearency outside me, as though it always meant to be inside me, gleams from afar into me gladsomely.1914, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems, 1906 to 1926, published 1976, page 182. From the entry appearency

Meaning of gleam

  1. noun An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
  2. noun An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
  3. noun A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.

Full definition of gleam

Questions about the plural of gleam

What is the plural of gleam?
The plural of gleam is gleams.
Is gleam countable?
Gleam is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gleam (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “Plural of gleam.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plural/gleam. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.