Usually means: Reflect light with a shine.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gleam: Merriam-Webster
  2. gleam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gleam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gleam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gleam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gleam, gleam: Wordnik
  7. gleam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gleam: Wiktionary
  9. gleam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gleam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gleam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gleam, gleam: Dictionary.com
  13. gleam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gleam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gleam (album), Gleam (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gleam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gleam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gleam: Rhymezone
  19. gleam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gleam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gleam: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gleam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gleam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gleam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gleam: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLEAM: Acronym Finder
  2. gleam: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GLEAM: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is indistinct or small, or short-lived.
noun:  (countable, figuratively)
noun:  An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
noun:  A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
noun:  A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  (countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
noun:  (uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour.
verb:  (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light) to shine.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to glisten, to glitter.
verb:  (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
verb:  (intransitive, falconry, obsolete) Of a hawk or other bird of prey: to disgorge filth from its crop or gorge.

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