Usually means: Faint, intermittent flash or shine.
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  1. glimmer: Merriam-Webster
  2. glimmer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glimmer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glimmer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glimmer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glimmer, glimmer: Wordnik
  7. glimmer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glimmer: Wiktionary
  9. glimmer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glimmer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glimmer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glimmer, glimmer: Dictionary.com
  13. glimmer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glimmer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GLIMMER, Glimmer (Delerium Song), Glimmer (She-Ra), Glimmer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Glimmer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glimmer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glimmer: Rhymezone
  19. glimmer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glimmer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. glimmer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. glimmer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. glimmer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. glimmer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. glimmer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. glimmer: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glimmer: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glimmer, glimmer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. glimmer: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glimmer: Gambling Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (glimmer)

▸ noun:  A faint light; a dim glow.
▸ noun:  A flash of light.
▸ noun:  A faint or remote possibility (as it were a flash of light).
▸ noun:  (dated, uncountable) Mica.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To shine with a faint, unsteady light.

Similar:
gleam, twinkle, stime, leme, glim, shining, glimmer of hope, glinting, glitterance, glisten, more...

Opposite:
dimness, darkness, obscurity, opacity, blackness

Types:
shimmer, gleam, flicker, twinkle, more...

Phrases:
glimmer gowk, glimmer ice, a glimmer of hope, glimmer of hope, opposite of glimmer, more...

Adjectives:
faint, first, last, pale, feeblest, least, smallest, slightest, dim, only, white

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     champagne,     opal, more...


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Similar:
gleam, twinkle, stime, leme, glim, shining, glimmer of hope, glinting, glitterance, glisten, more...

Opposite:
dimness, darkness, obscurity, opacity, blackness

Types:
shimmer, gleam, flicker, twinkle, more...

Phrases:
glimmer gowk, glimmer ice, a glimmer of hope, glimmer of hope, opposite of glimmer, glimmer of determination, more...

Adjectives:
faint, first, last, pale, feeblest, least, smallest, slightest, dim, only, white

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     pearl,     champagne,     opal, more...



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