English Explanatory Dictionary

shine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
  2. To reflect light.
  3. To distinguish oneself; to excel.
  4. To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
  5. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
  6. To be immediately apparent.
  7. To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
  8. To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
noun
  1. Brightness from a source of light.
  2. Brightness from reflected light.
  3. Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
  4. Shoeshine.
  5. Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
  6. Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
  7. A black person.
  8. The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
  9. A liking for a person; a fancy.
  10. A caper; an antic; a row.
verb
  1. To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
  2. To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Acronym of single high-impulse noise event.

Pronunciation

shīn /ʃaɪn/ en-us-shine.ogg en-au-shine.ogg

Word forms

shine shines shining shone shined

Etymology

From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).

Synonyms

beam beshine gleam glow illuminate illumine light up shine radiate glint glisten glitter luster reflect coruscate flash sheen shimmer sparkle excel rule bang devour eat eat and leave no crumbs go hard kick kick ass rock slap slay belight shed light on alight bright enlighten fire illume illustrate irradiate light lighten lustrate effulgence radiance radiancy refulgence refulgency brilliance splendor see shoeshine see sunshine bathtub gin bootleg corn liquor hooch mountain dew white lightning coon-dick coondick

Antonyms

adumbrate darken obscure overshadow shade shadow

Derived words

ashine beshine fix the roof while the sun is shining sea to shining sea intershine knight in shining armor knight in shining armour outshine overshine reshine rise and shine shine a light on shine down on shine down upon shine light on shine off shine on shiner shine through shine up shining firmoss shining ones shining tubeshoulder where the sun doesn't shine where the sun don't shine backshine foreshine anti-shine powder candleshine come rain or shine cookie-shine coreshine cut a shine dewshine earthshine eyeshine fireshine get one's shine box monkeyshine rain or shine ringshine seashine shine box shineful shineless shine muscat shininess Shinola shiny spit shine spitshine starshine sylvanshine take a shine to take the shine out of through-shine wondershine
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