Standard Lemma guide

ashimmer

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65, [...] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From a- + shimmer.