Usually means: Brief look at something quickly.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word glimpse:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. glimpse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glimpse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glimpse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glimpse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glimpse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glimpse, glimpse: Wordnik
  7. glimpse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glimpse: Wiktionary
  9. glimpse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glimpse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glimpse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glimpse, glimpse: Dictionary.com
  13. glimpse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glimpse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GLIMPSE, Glimpse (disambiguation), Glimpse, The Glimpse (Robert Mitchell album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glimpse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glimpse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glimpse: Rhymezone
  19. glimpse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glimpse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Glimpse: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. glimpse: Free Dictionary
  23. glimpse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. glimpse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. glimpse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glimpse: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLIMPSE: Acronym Finder
  2. glimpse: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glimpse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See glimpsed as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A brief look, glance, or peek.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A sudden flash, a glimmer.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A faint idea; an inkling.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To appear by glimpses.

Similar:
glance, foreglimpse, coup d'oeil, glimmer, snapshot, looking, eyeglance, blink of an eye, aspect, aperçu, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, miss, neglect, disregard

Phrases:
catch a glimpse, catch a glimpse of, Glimpse of Us, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, more...

Adjectives:
first, last, briefest, fleeting, momentary, occasional, rare, quick, interesting, fascinating, final

Colors:
    silver,     lavender,     pearl,     mist,     opal, more...


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Similar:
glance, foreglimpse, coup d'oeil, glimmer, snapshot, looking, eyeglance, blink of an eye, aspect, aperçu, more...

Opposite:
ignore, overlook, miss, neglect, disregard

Phrases:
catch a glimpse, catch a glimpse of, Glimpse of Us, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not, get a quick glimpse of, caught a glimpse of, glimpse at, caught a glimpse, more...

Adjectives:
first, last, briefest, fleeting, momentary, occasional, rare, quick, interesting, fascinating, final

Colors:
    silver,     lavender,     pearl,     mist,     opal, more...



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