Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Flickering lightly.
- adjective Having a gentle glow; luminous: synonym: bright.
- adjective Light or brilliant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Licking.
- Hence Running along or over a surface, as if in the act of licking; flowing over or along; lapping or bathing; softly bright; gleaming.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over.
- adjective Twinkling or gleaming; fickering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Brushing orflickering gently over a surface. - adjective
Glowing orluminous , but lackingheat . - adjective Exhibiting
lightness orbrilliance ofwit ;clever orwitty withoutunkindness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective softly bright or radiant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When he shot the sun at noon, the glow of achievement wrapped him in lambent flame.
Chapter 4 1913
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When he shot the sun at noon, the glow of achievement wrapped him in lambent flame.
Chapter 4 1911
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They have a taste of native earth, beautifully rarefied: to change the metaphor, they illuminate the page with a kind of lambent common sense.
From a Cornish Window A New Edition Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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He gazes with growing fear and wonder at the lambent pattern of particle tracks, and struggles to absorb the full implications.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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As Leigh did with 2008's "Happy-Go-Lucky," he and cinematographer Dick Pope have chosen a lush palette and expansive widescreen canvas to draw the audience into Tom and Gerri's lambent world, made all the more seductive by Gary Yershon's lyrical chamber score.
Somewhere between settled and unsettling Ann Hornaday 2011
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Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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An internal light source emits a lambent umber glow so that, in the gallery's dimly lit corner in which it sits, it looks like a meteor that just cratered into the floor.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
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An internal light source emits a lambent umber glow so that, in the gallery's dimly lit corner in which it sits, it looks like a meteor that just cratered into the floor.
James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California James Scarborough 2011
sionnach commented on the word lambent
young sheep with same-sex proclivities
November 2, 2007
acantha commented on the word lambent
Foaled of the white sea-horses,
Washed in the lambent waters of the sun.
(francis thompson, from the night of forebeing)
April 28, 2008
yarb commented on the word lambent
But Princess Nathalie, the cat, was uneasy. Annixter was occupying her own particular chair in which she slept every night. She could not go to sleep, but spied upon him continually, watching his every movement with her lambent, yellow eyes, clear as amber.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 3
August 9, 2008
john commented on the word lambent
"About a week after 9/11, notebook in hand, I went to a screening of 'Serendipity,' a romance set in a lambent New York, starring John Cusack, Kate Beckinsale and tertiary players from 'Sex and the City.'"
The New York Times, Reflections on That Dreadful Tuesday, by Ed Park, September 6, 2008
September 8, 2008
dream7184 commented on the word lambent
Always has been one of my favorite words. It sounds and looks like what it means.
April 21, 2012
Louises commented on the word lambent
Her flesh is lambent against the black of her dress. James Salter in"A Sport and a Past Time"
February 12, 2013
qms commented on the word lambent
The sun's is a harsh and literal light,
But seen by the lamps of the night
The world circumambient
Is suggestively lambent,
As shadows shape the inward sight.
August 2, 2014