Agleam

Definition: Agleam

Agleam

Adjective

1. 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".

Date "agleam" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Agleam \A*gleam"\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- gleam.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Agleam

Synonyms: gleaming (adj), nitid (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Agleam

English words defined with "agleam": gleaming ♦ nitid. (references)

"Agleam" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Agleam" is used about 6 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

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.

Language		Translations for "agleam"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		duke vezulluar (aglimmer), duke dridhur. (various references)

Arabic		‏مومض (blinking, fuliginous), ‏مشرق (beaming, beamy, bright, brilliant, clear, luminous, radiant, shining, shiny, splendid, vivid), ‏ذو وميض. (various references)

Bulgarian		лъскав (chatoyant, ganoid, glace, glazy, glossy, lustrous, satiny, sheeny, shiny, sleek), блестящ (bright, brilliant, flaring, fulgent, garish, gay, glistening, imperial, lambent, lucent, lucid, luminous, lustrous, oriental, pyrotechnic, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, splendent, splendid, splendiferous, superb, vivid). (various references)

Farsi		تابان (Aglow, Bright, Brilliant, Hot, Light, Luminous, Perfervid, Shiner). (various references)

French		rayonnant (aglow). (various references)

German		erleuchtet (alit, enlightened, enlightens, illumes, illuminated, illuminates). (various references)

Hebrew		זורח (fluorescent, lucid, luminescent, luminous, resplendent). (various references)

Hungarian		ragyogó (beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, polished, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole), fényesen (brightly, glossily, sleekly), csillogóan (aglimmer). (various references)

Italian		lucente (lucent, shining, shiny). (various references)

Manx		goullragh. (various references)

Pig Latin		agleamay

Portuguese		cintilante (brisk, flaring, flashy, lambent, shining, shiny, sparkling), brilhante (ablaze, bright, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flamingo, fulgent, gay, glaring, glow worm, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, lud, luminous, lustrous, Orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid). (various references)

Russian		светясь, мерцая (aglimmer, scintillatingly, shimmeringly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		blistav (fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, luminous, resplendent, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent). (various references)

Spanish		reluce, centelleante (aglimmer, lambent, scintillant, scintillating, sparkling, twinkling), brilla. (various references)

Turkish		parıltılı, pırıl pırıl (ablaze, as fresh as paint, refulgent, shimmery, sleek, sparkling, very clean), ışıltılı (ablaze, bright, shining), ışıl ışıl (ablaze, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references)

Ukranian		блискаючи, блимаючи. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Agleam" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agbeka, agea, agean, agem, Agema, Aglipay, Agneau, ajalan, aleem, Ayglara, galam, galeae, Galega. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "agleam" (pronounced uglē"m)
4	-g l ē" m	gleam.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-m"
	-1 letter: algae, galea, gleam.
	-2 letters: agma, alae, alga, alma, alme, egal, gala, gale, gama, game, lama, lame, mage, male, meal.
	-3 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, ama, elm, gae, gal, gam, gel, gem, lag, lam, lea, leg, mae, mag, meg, mel.
	-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, am, el, em, la, ma, me.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-m"
	+1 letter: gamelan.
	+2 letters: almagest, amygdale, ballgame, gamelans, magdalen, megadeal, semigala, smallage.
	+3 letters: almagests, amygdalae, amygdales, armigeral, ballgames, cablegram, gallamine, glutamate, guacamole, magdalene, magdalens, malaguena, megadeals, plasmagel, smallages.
	+4 letters: acromegaly, allogamies, amalgamate, assemblage, blancmange, cablegrams, camouflage, carmagnole, emalangeni, fragmental, gallamines, glassmaker, glutamates, guacamoles, imaginable, magdalenes, malaguenas, malignance, manageable, manageably, managerial, maquillage, martingale, megafaunal, metagalaxy, plasmagels, plasmagene, rigamarole, stalagmite.
	+5 letters: acromegalic, agglomerate, amalgamated, amalgamates, assemblages, blancmanges, camouflaged, camouflages, carmagnoles, egomaniacal, enigmatical, gametically, glassmakers, glutaminase, magisterial, malignances, maltreating, mammalogies, maquillages, marginalize, martingales, megaloblast, megalomania, megalomanic, plasmagenes, platemaking, rigamaroles, sexagesimal, stalagmites, stalemating.
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