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aglitter en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈɡlɪtɚ/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English glitter English aglitter From a- + glitter.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Glittering.
    • The blacksmith was long gone, his ironwork aglitter like a gate to heaven. 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, New York: Knopf, page 89:
    • The grass must have been growing during the night, for it is tickling our bare ankles; and sure of all coolness, none so refreshing to the frame as that which follows one’s foot-prints on meadow aglitter with morning dews. 1832 July, John Wilson, “Christopher at the Lakes”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 32, number 196, page 121:
    • […] by now his black eyes were aglitter with stars. 1968, Samuel R. Delany, chapter 1, in Nova, New York: Vintage, published 2002, page 14:
    • a light buggy, all aglitter from point to point of its natty furnishings, drew up at our gate 1912, Mary Austin, chapter 4, in A Woman of Genius, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 38: