Synonyms:
gleam, gleaming, glimmer
Meaning: a flash of light (especially reflected light)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
gleam, glimmer
Meaning: shine brightly, like a star or a light
Usage examples
The fog was still thick about the house, so that hardly a glimmer of light came from the window.
While she spoke, she saw through the blank darkness a glimmer of light; it came through a little door.
After that last glimmer of life beside the deathbed of his son, the old Duc had practically ceased to be.
Nothing was overhead, nothing under foot, nothing on either hand, but the same pale, faint, bluish glimmer.
Down through a small, square opening overhead, no larger than a ventilator, it came ... a glimmer of violet flame!
"Well!" resumed the Catalan, as he saw the final glimmer of Caderousse's reason vanishing before the last glass of wine.
This afternoon her pause on each landing was longer than usual, for a yellow fog, which mocked the pale glimmer of gas-jets on the staircase, made her gasp asthmatically.
I will go and look for it,' and he felt all round the walls of the pit till he found a very little hole in the roof of the pit, with a tiny glimmer of light at the far end of it.
At last he reached a landing-stage, and gazing over the edge and down, beheld the stone pavement far, far below, lit by a faint glimmer of light that entered through the arched doorway.
The housekeeper held the candle over the balusters until I reached the bottom of the stairs, when I perceived through the open door along the passage a glimmer of light from the carriage lamps.