Definitions for glimpses

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Spelling: [glimps]
IPA: /glɪmps/

Glimpses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in glimpses (egilmpss).

Definitions for glimpses

noun

  1. a very brief, passing look, sight, or view.
  2. a momentary or slight appearance.
  3. a vague idea; inkling.
  4. Archaic. a gleam, as of light.

verb (used with object)

  1. to catch or take a glimpse of.

verb (used without object)

  1. to look briefly; glance (usually followed by at).
  2. Archaic. to come into view; appear faintly.

Origin of glimpses

1350-1400; Middle English glimsen (v.); cognate with Middle High German glimsen to glow; akin to glimmer

Examples for glimpses

I thought I had a glimpse of something behind that thick bush.

The tumult was such that young Sarah had cause to worry that she might not get even a glimpse of Will and Kate.

When he gets his hands on a Canon copier, the reader gets a glimpse into the unique fashion in which his mind works.

That tells us not just the story of other star systems, but offers a glimpse into our own deep history, the one we can never see.

Yet how imperfect a glimpse do we obtain of him, through the medium of this, or any of his letters!

It is a glimpse at life exactly as it was at 3:32 am on April 6, 2009 when the earthquake stopped time.

I'll burn my copy before I will let you have a glimpse of it.

At the first glimpse of the terrible head of Medusa, they whitened into marble!

I catch a glimpse of the grandness of your sister's meaning.

On the back cover of the first paperback edition we get a glimpse of the media buzz.

Word Value for glimpses
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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