Usually means: Emit light; reflect brightly, glow.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word shine:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shine: Merriam-Webster
  3. shine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shine: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shine: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shine, shine: Wordnik
  8. shine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shine, shine: Wiktionary
  10. shine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shine: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shine: Dictionary.com
  14. shine (n.), shine (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SHINE, Shine (Anette Olzon album), Shine (Anna Nalick EP), Shine (Aswad song), Shine (Bond album), Shine (Cecil Mack song), Shine (Collective Soul song), Shine (Crime & the City Solution album), Shine (Cyndi Lauper album), Shine (Cyndi Lauper song), Shine (Daniel Lanois album), Shine (De Toppers song), Shine (Edenbridge album), Shine (Estelle album), Shine (Five Star album), Shine (French band), Shine (Frida album), Shine (Gwen Stefani song), Shine (Hong Kong group), Shine (Indica album), Shine (J-Min EP), Shine (Joni Mitchell album), Shine (Kids in the Kitchen album), Shine (Luna Sea album), Shine (Luther Vandross song), Shine (Martina McBride album), Shine (Mary Black album), Shine (Meredith Brooks album), Shine (Mike Oldfield song), Shine (Mother Love Bone EP), Shine (Mother Love Bone album), Shine (Newsboys Song), Shine (Ricky Martin song), Shine (Rosemary's Sons song), Shine (Shaman's Harvest album), Shine (Shannon Noll song), Shine (Sopho Nizharadze song), Shine (Swedish band), Shine (Take That song), Shine (Tolmachevy Sisters song), Shine (Trey Anastasio album), Shine (Trey Anastasio song), Shine (Vanessa Amorosi song), Shine (Wale album), Shine (Waylon Jennings song), Shine (Years & Years song), Shine (band), Shine (bond album), Shine (charity), Shine (compilation series), Shine (film), Shine (nightclub), Shine (novel), Shine (song), Shine, Shine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shine: Rhymezone
  20. shine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. shine: FreeDictionary.org
  23. shine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. shine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. shine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shine (album), Shine (disambiguation), Shine (song), shine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHINE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. shine: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shine, shine, shine, shine, shine, shine, shine, shine, shine: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the shine: Urban Dictionary
  3. Shine: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
verb:  (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
verb:  (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun:  Brightness from a source of light.
noun:  Brightness from reflected light.
noun:  Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
noun:  Shoeshine.
noun:  Sunshine.
noun:  (slang) Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
noun:  (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
noun:  (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
noun:  (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
noun:  (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
verb:  (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (telecommunications) Acronym of single high-impulse noise event.

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