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adj
Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, poetic, rare, usually
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adj
Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, poetic, rare, usually
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name
An area of Greater London, officially East Sheen.
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name
A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1161).
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name
A surname.
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noun
Splendor; radiance; shininess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The letter ش in the Arabic script.
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verb
To shine; to glisten.
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Usage: intransitive, poetic, rare
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noun
the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: shininess, luster, lustre
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Broader terms: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency
History
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-. Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.
From Old English Sceon (“shelter, shed”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō.
Across languages
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