2 meanings
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1 —as in:
a glimmer of hope
Definition
a slight indication of something — such as hope or interest- I saw a glimmer of understanding in her eye.
glimmer = a slight indication of something
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.Edmund Gibson
- In the back of his mind something began to glimmer.Dalton Trumbo -- Johnny Got His Gun
- I took Drew's handoff, saw a glimmer of a hole between Tyler Ashby and our center Dan Driessen, and made my move.Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
- A glimmer of regret flashed through his weariness: this would be a good photo, but he'd left his camera in the hotel safe.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- She'd had the faintest glimmer of an imagining to slow Bibwit down and then—bam!Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
- He was a beat too late: Bright won by a glimmer.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- Mr. Hooper's smile glimmered faintly.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil
- Somehow she had come to be here in this tiny purple bathroom, a mother to Phoebe, a companion to a brilliant man with a failing mind, an unlikely but certain friend to this woman Doro March: the two of them strangers a year ago, women who might have passed each other on the street without a second glance or a glimmer of connection, their lives now woven together by the demands of their days and a cautious, sure respect.Kim Edwards -- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
glimmer = arise (an inkling of a new thought — a slight indication of something)
glimmer = a slight indication of something
glimmer = slight indication
glimmer = slight amount
glimmer = slight amount
glimmered = a slight indication of something
2 —as in:
glimmering lights
Definition
a dim, wavering, or reflected light- The moonlight glimmered on the lake.
glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day;Shakespeare -- Macbeth
- Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Sign of the Four
- I stood watching their white dresses glimmer smaller and smaller down the sidewalk as they went away.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- He saw the glimmering of a fire upon the old walls...Charles Dickens -- The Old Curiosity Shop
- At the first faintest glimmering of the dawn, his iron voice was heard from aft — Man the mast-heads.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- They glimmered in the candlelight, pink and pale green and silver.Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember
- The tall man's sparkling white garment glimmered in the afternoon sun.Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner
- When morning comes and the parking lot glimmers with dew, I see the billboard on the highway.Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan
- His eyes, however, were soon greeted by a little glimmering light, which, at first a long way off was approaching up the street.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
glimmered = shined (with a dim or wavering light)
glimmered = shined
glimmers = shines
glimmering = dimly shining or twinkling
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