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Word entry · 7 letters

glimpse

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"Brief look at something"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡlɪm(p)s/Part of speech noun, verbSorted egilmpsStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Brief or quick look at something.

Word origin

The verb is derived from earlier glimse (obsolete), from Middle English glimsen (“to dazzle; to glisten; to glance with the eyes”), possibly from Old English *glimsian, from Proto-West Germanic *glimmisōjan, from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to shine”). Doublet of glimmer.

Used in a sentence

  • Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race—as I doubt all the less since reading that a new ninth planet has been glimpsed beyond Neptune, just as those influences had said it would be glimpsed.
  • I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
  • What memories? / The pure love thoughts and who may know / Thou glimpsest from the long ago?

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