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Definition: Glisten |
GlistenNoun1. The quality of glittering or sparkling brightly. Verb1. Be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glisten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Glisten \Glis"ten\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Glistened; present participle verb or noun Glistening.]. (references) |
Synonyms: GlistenSynonyms: glister (n), scintillation (n), sparkle (n), gleam (v), glint (v), glitter (v), shine (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glisten |
| English words defined with "glisten": Gleen, Glistened ♦ To flash in the pan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glisten": STILTS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glisten": Glist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I glisten like sun and water while fishing (Feel Me Flow; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) And the way your hair would glisten in the sun (Endless Summer Nights; performing artist: Richard Marx) | |
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| "Glisten" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 60.71% of the time. "Glisten" is used about 28 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 60.71% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 39.29% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
glisten | 14 |
glisten mineral that | 3 |
cleaner dishwasher glisten | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glisten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkëlqej (blaze, bloom, flame, flash, fulgurate, gild, glare, gleam, glint, glister, glitter, glory, glow, light, polish, scintillate, shed, shine), ndriçoj (enlighten, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, light, lighten, shine, spotlight). (various references) | |
Arabic | لمعان (brightness, burnish, flash, glitter, gloss, glossiness, luminosity, luster, radiance, refulgence, sheen, shine, shining), لمع (beam, blaze, buff, burnish, coruscate, dazzle, enamel, flare, flash, furbish, gleam, glitter, polish, radiate, rub up, shine, sparkle), تلألؤ (coruscation, twinkle), تلألأ (glint, luster, lustre, scintillate, shimmer, spangle, sparkle, twinkle), أومض (blink, glance, glimmer, glint, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | светя (burn, glow, hallow, irradiate, lamp, light, shine), лъщя (glitter, shine). (various references) | |
Chinese | 閃亮 (flare, twinkle), 闪亮. (various references) | |
Czech | třpytit se (blaze, coruscate, gleam, glint, glister, glitter, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle), lesknout se (be sparkling clean, gleam, glint, glissade, shimmer, shine). (various references) | |
Farsi | جسته جسته برق زدن , درخشیدن (Glint, Glitter, Glory, Lamp, Lighten, Luster, Ray, Scintillate, Sheen, Shine, Star), برق زدن (Alight, Flash, Glitter, Lightning, Luster, Ray, Scintillate, Wink). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiiltää (gleam, glitter, shine). (various references) | |
French | scintillement (glitter), luire (gleam, glimmer, glint), chatoyer (gleam, glint, glitter), étinceler (glance, gleam). (various references) | |
German | glitzern (glint, glitter, twinkle). (various references) | |
Greek | λάμπω (shine), λαμποκοπώ (blaze). (various references) | |
Hebrew | להבהיק (brighten, glint, glitter, polish, shine), לנצנץ (flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csillogás (glint, glitter, twinkle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | celak (sparkle), berkilauan (burnish), bercerlangkan. (various references) | |
Italian | luccicare (gleam, glint, glitter, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle), brillare (shine). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | きまり悪い (at once, being ashamed, Eek!, feeling awkward, glitter, look around restlessly, quickly, right away, sparkle, squeak, squeaking, tightly, twinkle, Yipe!). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きらきら (glitter, sparkle, twinkle). (various references) | |
Korean | 반짝임 (Glitter, twinkle). (various references) | |
Manx | lonraghey (brighten, glow), glistree, glistral. (various references) | |
Norwegian | glitre (glint, glitter), glinse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | istenglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resplendor (fire, flush, glint, glitter, halo, nimbus, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), reluzir (coruscate, flash, glint, glitter, lamp, shine, sparkle), reflexo (reflex), refletir (consider, reflect), cintilar (blink, flash, flicker, gleam, glimmer, glint, glister, glitter, ray, scintillate, shine, sparkle, twinkle, wink), cintilação (effulgence, flashing, glint, glitter, lambency, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle, twinkling), brilho (brightness, brilliance, shine), brilhar (shine), arder (burn, flame, glow). (various references) | |
Romanian | strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, irradiate, light, radiate, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), sclipire (brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, flare, flash, gleam, glister, glitter, sheen, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), sclipi (gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glitter, lighten, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle), scânteiere (gleam, glitter, scintillation, shaft, sparkle), scânteia (coruscate, flash, glance, gleam, glint, glitter, kindle, scintillate, spark, sparkle, twinkle), luci (burnish, glance, gleam, shine, sparkle). (various references) | |
Russian | блестеть (glint, glister, glitter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trepereti (flicker, pulsate, tremble, vacillate, vibrate, warble), svetlucati (gleam, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glister, scintillate, shimmer, twinkle). (various references) | |
Spanish | relucir (gleam, shine, sparkle). (various references) | |
Swedish | tindra (sparkle, twinkle), glittra (glint), blänka (shine). (various references) | |
Thai | ระยิบระยับ. (various references) | |
Turkish | parlamak (beam, blaze, blink, coruscate, flare up, flash, fulminate, glare, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, light up, lighten, loose off at, shine, shine out, smile, sparkle, twinkle), parıltı (blink, glance, glare, gleam, glint, glitter, glow, luster, lustre, Orient, shimmer), pırıltı (blaze, dazzle, gleam, sheen, shimmer, spark of, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling), kesik kesik parlamak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | balkyldamak (glitter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | іскритися (scintillate, spark, sparkle), відблиск (afterglow, blink, glow, reflection, reflexion), блискання (flare), блищати (burnish, coruscate, glitter, shine). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tia sáng long lanh, ánh lấp lánh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | refulgens, refulsit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glisten": glistened, glistening, glistens. (additional references) | |
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"Glisten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blistene, Galizien, Gallistel, Geissen, Geiste, Gilston, Gislen, giste, Glashtyn, glassteel, glasto, glaten, Glikstein, glisen, gliste, glite, gliten, Glouston, Gluxstein, Gulistan, Iglesden, Llystyn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glisten" (pronounced gli"sun) |
| 5 | -l i" s u n | listen. |
| 4 | -i" s u n | christen, rechristen. |
| 3 | -s u n | fasten, aflatoxin, angiotensin, antitoxin, arson, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, claxon, comparison, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, diocesan, dioxin, Dobson, ensign, garrison, Gibson, hasten, Hyson, jettison, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, loosen, Mason, medicine, moisten, myosin, Nelson, newsperson, oxen, oxytocin, parson, person, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, toxin, unison, venison, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: singlet, tingles. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elints, enlist, gentil, glints, ingest, ingles, inlets, legist, legits, listen, signet, silent, single, tinges, tingle, tinsel. | |
-2 letters: elint, gelts, gents, gilts, glens, glint, ingle, inlet, inset, islet, istle, legit, lenis, liens, lines, lings, lints, neist, nites, segni, sengi, senti, singe, sling, stein, stile, sting, tiles, tines, tinge, tings. | |
-3 letters: egis, engs, gels, gelt. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: beltings, feltings, gelatins, genitals, gentiles, gillnets, glistens, kinglets, lightens, lignites, lingiest, nestling, pestling, ringlets, settling, singlets, sleeting, smelting, stealing, steeling, sterling, tinglers, weltings, winglets. | |
+2 letters: alginates, anglesite, athelings, clingiest, closeting, cultigens, delisting, desalting, enlisting, enologist, fettlings, gainliest, galenites, gangliest, gantlines, gelatines, gelations, glistened, glutelins, gnarliest, hosteling, integrals, jangliest, jingliest, jungliest, kingliest, legations, ligaments, lightness, listening, lustering, molesting, nestlings, nightless, penlights, relisting, reslating, restyling, resulting, selecting, settlings, singleton, sklenting, slangiest, sleuthing, stealings, sterlings, stingless, streeling, tangibles, tangliest, tasseling, teaseling, teasingly, tingliest, tinseling, towelings, triangles, wrestling. | |
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