glittering en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈɡlɪtəɹɪŋ/
Meanings
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Brightly sparkling.
It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.
1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:
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(figuratively) Valuable, desirable.
Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees.
1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 85:There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most glittering | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more glittering | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unglittering · glittering generality · glitteringly
Synonyms
Translations (19)
de funkelnd (brightly sparkling) · fa لپان (brightly sparkling) · fr étincelant (brightly sparkling) · ru блиста́ющий (brightly sparkling) · eo briletanta (brightly sparkling) · ka ბრწყინვალე (brightly sparkling) · grc στιλπνός (brightly sparkling) · fi kimaltava (brightly sparkling) · la coruscus (brightly sparkling) · pt cintilante (brightly sparkling) · bg лъскав (brightly sparkling) · es chispeante (brightly sparkling) · fi kimalteleva (brightly sparkling) · cmn 闪耀的 (brightly sparkling) · bg блестящ (brightly sparkling) · hu csillogó (brightly sparkling) · ru сверка́ющий (brightly sparkling) · hi चमकीला (brightly sparkling) · de glitzernd (brightly sparkling)