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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Gleaming.]
     1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn,
        light gleams in the east.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
  
     Syn: To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter.
  
     Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of
            light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady
            giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that
            is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon
            the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist;
            a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See Flash.
            [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Gleam \Gleam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Gleaming.]
     1. To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn,
        light gleams in the east.
  
     2. To shine; to cast light; to glitter.
  
     Syn: To Gleam, Glimmer, Glitter.
  
     Usage: To gleam denotes a faint but distinct emission of
            light. To glimmer describes an indistinct and unsteady
            giving of light. To glitter imports a brightness that
            is intense, but varying. The morning light gleams upon
            the earth; a distant taper glimmers through the mist;
            a dewdrop glitters in the sun. See Flash.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  gleaming
       adj : bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we
             saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming
             brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"
             [syn: agleam, nitid]
       n 1: a flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: gleam,
             glimmer]
       2: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, glow, lambency]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  gleaming
     a.
     Having a bright sheen.
     n.
     A flash of reflected light.
     vb.
     (present participle of en gleam nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  gleaming
     a.
     Having a bright sheen.
     n.
     A flash of reflected light.
     vb.
     (present participle of en gleam nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  gleaming
     a.
     Having a bright sheen.
     n.
     A flash of reflected light.
     vb.
     (present participle of en gleam nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  gleaming
     a.
     Having a bright sheen.
     n.
     A flash of reflected light.
     vb.
     (present participle of en gleam nocat=1)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  gleaming
     Englanti a.
     kimalteleva, säkenöivä
     Englanti n.
     hohto

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/
  اللمعان

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/ 
  zářící

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/ 
  lesklý

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/
  aufleuchtend, blinkend
   see: gleam, gleamed
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/
  durchschimmernd, glänzend
   see: gleam, gleamed, gleams, gleamed
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/
  gleißend
     Synonyms: glistening, glistering, glittering brightly
  
   see: glisten, glister, glitter brightly, gleam
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/
  strahlend, leuchtend, schimmernd
   see: gleam, gleamed, gleams, gleamed
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  gleaming /ɡlˈiːmɪŋ/
  
  αστραφτερός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  gleaming //ˈɡliːmɪŋ// 
  hohtava
  having a bright sheen

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɡɫimɪŋ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "gleaming":
     aglow, beaming, beamy, blushing, bright and sunny, buffed, burning,
     burnished, candescent, finished, flushing, furbished, glace,
     glassy, glazed, gleamy, glinting, glistening, glossy, glowing,
     illuminant, incandescent, irradiative, lacquered, lamping,
     light as day, luciferous, lucific, luciform, luminant, luminative,
     luminiferous, luminificent, luminous, lustrous, orient, polished,
     radiant, rubbed, rutilant, rutilous, satiny, sheeny, shellacked,
     shining, shiny, silken, silky, sleek, slick, starbright, starlike,
     starry, streaming, suffused, sunny, sunshiny, varnished, velvety
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a.闪闪发光的

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