sheene
/ʃiːn/
sheene is the obsolete spelling of sheen.
Meaning of sheen
Adjective
sheen (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)
- Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
- Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield...
- Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.
- […] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen
Her brooks receive the wat'ry element, […]1822, William Tennant, The Thane of Fife: A Poem, in Six Cantos, page 48
- […] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen
Forms of sheene
| comparative | sheener |
|---|---|
| superlative | sheenest |
Words that rhyme with sheene
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- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about sheene
- What is sheene the obsolete spelling of?
- Sheene is the obsolete spelling of sheen.
- How do you pronounce sheene?
- Sheene is pronounced /ʃiːn/.
Words near sheene in the dictionary
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