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Word entry · 5 letters

sheen

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"Soft, lustrous shine"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃiːn/Part of speech nounSorted eehnsStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the visual property of something that shines with reflected light

Word origin

From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.

Used in a sentence

  • Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
  • The doleful Dumps I sing, and tearful Woes, Of Marian teeming with unlawful Throes: The sheenest Lass in Berkshire was she known, Of all that Butter fell to Reading Town: […]
  • […] Would'st hear, what dims those eyes so sheen?

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