Usually means: Shimmering light reflecting off surfaces.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sparkle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparkle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sparkle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sparkle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sparkle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sparkle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sparkle, sparkle: Wordnik
  7. sparkle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sparkle: Wiktionary
  9. sparkle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sparkle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sparkle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sparkle: Dictionary.com
  13. sparkle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sparkle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sparkle (Aretha Franklin album), Sparkle (Sparkle album), Sparkle (charity), Sparkle (drink), Sparkle (singer), Sparkle (software), Sparkle (soundtrack), Sparkle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sparkle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sparkle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sparkle: Rhymezone
  19. sparkle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sparkle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sparkle: Free Dictionary
  22. sparkle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Sparkle, sparkle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. sparkle: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparkle: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPARKLE: Acronym Finder
  2. sparkle: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparkle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sparkle: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. sparkle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sparkled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A little spark; a scintillation.
noun:  Brilliance; luster.
noun:  Liveliness; vivacity.
noun:  The quality of being sparkling or fizzy; effervescence.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
verb:  (by extension) To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
verb:  (intransitive) To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
verb:  (intransitive) To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
verb:  (transitive) To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To disperse.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To scatter on or over.

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