Word Type

Verb

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "shine" can be used as verb, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

REIN beam flash glare glimmer shimmer twinkle

Derived Terms

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

Context

cricket slang us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

appear be beautify brightness come about embellish emit exist experience explain explicate fall out fancify feel flash give off give out go on hap happen irradiate look occur pass pass off prettify radiate seem take place

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

blink flash flicker fulgurate glare glimmer outglow outshine scintillate shimmer twinkle

Manner Of

be

Related Terms

amount antic apparent appearance brightness caper clothing cricket ball distinguish effulgent emit excel excellence immediately light moonshine polish quality reflect reflected row saliva shininess shoeshine source sunshine

Similar Terms

beam

Synonym Network

beam brilliance effulgence excel fall gleam glisten glitter glow luster moonshine polish radiance reflect shoeshine sunshine wax

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