gleam — OET · Shobdo

gleam

verb

the new brass nameplate gleamed in the moonlight:

shine, glimmer, glint, catch the light, glitter, shimmer, glow, sparkle, twinkle, flicker, blink, wink, glisten, flash, flare, beam, fluoresce;

reflect light;

literary glister;

rare coruscate, scintillate, fulgurate, effulge, luminesce, incandesce, phosphoresce.

noun

1 a gleam of light:

glimmer, glint, shimmer, glow, twinkle, sparkle, flicker, blink, spark, flash, flare;

beam, ray, shaft, finger, pencil.

2 the gleam of polished brass:

shine, lustre, gloss, sheen;

glint, glitter, glimmer, sparkle, brightness, brilliance, radiance, glow, luminescence, luminosity, phosphorescence, incandescence;

literary glister;

rare lambency, scintillation, effulgence, refulgence, fulguration, coruscation.

3 a gleam of hope appeared in Ray's eyes:

glimmer, glimmering, flicker, ray, spark, trace, suggestion, hint, faint sign, scintilla.

gleam Oxford Dictionary of English