Glint

//ɡlɪnt//

Synonyms for "glint" (122 found)

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Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

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Synonyms

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derived

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has context

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is a

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related to

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Translations

45 translations across 19 languages.

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Bulgarian

4 entries
  • проблясък noun (short flash of light)
  • светване noun (short flash of light)
  • блясвам verb (to flash briefly)
  • светвам verb (to flash briefly)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • تروسکە noun (short flash of light)

Czech

4 entries
  • odlesk noun (short flash of light)
  • záblesk noun (short flash of light)
  • zalesknout se verb (to flash briefly)
  • zatřpytit se verb (to flash briefly)

Danish

1 entries
  • glimt noun (short flash of light)

Dutch

1 entries
  • flitsen verb (to flash briefly)

Finnish

4 entries
  • välkähdys noun (short flash of light)
  • välähdys noun (short flash of light)
  • välkähtää verb (to flash briefly)
  • välähtää verb (to flash briefly)

German

2 entries
  • Glitzern noun (short flash of light)
  • glitzern verb (to flash briefly)

Greek

3 entries
  • ανταύγεια noun (short flash of light)
  • μαρμαρυγή noun (short flash of light)
  • σπινθήρισμα noun (short flash of light)

Irish

3 entries
  • drithle noun (short flash of light)
  • glioscarnach noun (short flash of light)
  • léaró noun (short flash of light)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • бле́сок noun (short flash of light)
  • сјај noun (short flash of light)
  • бле́ска verb (to flash briefly)
  • све́тка verb (to flash briefly)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • glimt noun (short flash of light)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • glimt noun (short flash of light)

Polish

1 entries
  • błysk noun (short flash of light)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • cintilar verb (to flash briefly)

Romanian

4 entries
  • sclipire noun (short flash of light)
  • scânteie noun (short flash of light)
  • sclipi verb (to flash briefly)
  • scânteia verb (to flash briefly)

Russian

3 entries
  • вспы́шка noun (short flash of light)
  • вспы́хивать verb (to flash briefly)
  • сверка́ть verb (to flash briefly)

Spanish

1 entries
  • brillo noun (short flash of light)

Swedish

1 entries
  • glimta verb (to flash briefly)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • блиск noun (short flash of light)
  • відблиск noun (short flash of light)
  • блискати verb (to flash briefly)
  • блищати verb (to flash briefly)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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And now I neared the gates, and thought my flight / achieved, when suddenly a noise we hear / of trampling feet, and, peering through the night, / my father cries, "Fly, son, the Greeks are near; / they come, I see the glint of shield and spear, / fierce foes in front and flashing arms behind."

Source: tatoeba (6880318)

She was a fine tall woman, black and quick and fierce, with a proud way of carrying her head, and a glint from her eye like a spark from a flint.

Source: tatoeba (6957959)

I saw the glint of metal as he raised the gun.

Source: wiktionary

To be plunged straight into the old nut and bolt shop, as was the writer's experience, during a spell of cloudless June Weather was a real hardship, and the mind kept flitting back to the glint of blue water under willow trees and the click of ball on bat on a quiet spacious greensward.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.