glittering

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɪtəɹɪŋ/

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Verb

glittering

1. present participle of glitter

Adjective

glittering (comparative more glittering, superlative most glittering)

1. Brightly sparkling.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “His Own People”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 6:

     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.

2. (figuratively) Valuable, desirable.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p.85:

     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.

Synonyms

• aglitter

Translations

brightly sparkling

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: блестящ (bg) (blestjašt), лъскав (bg) (lǎskav)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闪耀的

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kimalteleva, kimaltava
• French: étincelant (fr)
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• Georgian: ბრწყინვალე (brc̣q̇invale)
• Hungarian: csillogó (hu)
• Latin: coruscus
• Persian: لپان (fa) (lepân)
• Portuguese: cintilante (pt)
• Russian: блиста́ющий (ru) (blistájuščij), сверка́ющий (ru) (sverkájuščij)
• Spanish: chispeante

Noun

glittering (plural glitterings)

1. The appearance of something that glitters.
   • John Locke

     Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances.