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# glimmer

«glimmer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a faint, weak light** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (glimmers); verb (glimmer, glimmers, glimmered, glimmering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A glimmer is a faint, weak light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#m1)

2) A glimmer of something is a small sign of it, such as a glimmer of hope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#m2)

3) (verb) To glimmer is to shine faintly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a glimmer of dawn or a faint light shows that day is coming or that a way out is near

### examples

- With the first glimmer of dawn the cock awoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#x1)
- At last he saw a glimmer far down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#x2)
- A glimmer of hope kept her going. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#x3)
- The stars glimmer over the still lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glimmer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glimmer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.