Definitions for glimmerings

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glimmerings glim·mer·ing

Spelling: [glim-er-ing]

IPA: /ˈglɪm ər ɪŋ/

Glimmerings is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 408 anagrams from letters in glimmerings (eggiilmmnrs).

Definitions for glimmerings

noun

1. a faint or unsteady light; glimmer.
2. a faint glimpse or idea; inkling.
3. a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
4. a dim perception; inkling.

adjective

1. shining faintly or unsteadily; shimmering.

verb (used without object)

1. to shine faintly or unsteadily; twinkle, shimmer, or flicker.
2. to appear faintly or dimly.

Origin of glimmerings

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at glimmer, -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for glimmerings

As I drove home that night around eight, Long Island Sound was pitch-black, apart from the glimmering reflection of light poles.

Sir Gervaise's manner had now lost every glimmering of excitement.

Side by side they had sat, watching that glimmering scene about them.

I was very young and I thought that the whole experience was a wonderful adventure and a glimmering portal to the future.

A glimmering of the truth came to Dunk, and his eyes narrowed.

And the lamps shone round them, and above them was the glimmering moon.

A light, soft and glimmering as morning twilight, floated round me.

Zora knows this glimmering light is not love, but renunciation.

I pursued it, until at last I saw a glimmering light like a star.

The glimmering of an explanation of this did not come until a long time afterward.