a·glit·ter

(ə-glĭt′ər)

adv. & adj.

Glittering; sparkling.

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aglitter

(əˈɡlɪtə)

adj

(postpositive) sparkling; glittering

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a•glit•ter

(əˈglɪt ər)

adj.

glittering; sparkling.

[1860–65]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

aglitter - having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term"

coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly, scintillating

bright - emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"

Translations

aglitter

adj pred to be aglitter → funkeln, glitzern

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References in classic literature

A slant of sunlight fell on it, and it was all aglitter with tiny specks of unmistakable free gold.

View in context

The plaza and streets are aglitter with thousands of lights, andBelenpresentations draw ohs and ahs from onlookers.

Merry and panic at Christmas

Though she herself was modestly attired, the place was aglitter with a huge Christmas tree decorated with colourful baubles, streamers and lights.

Santa's Gifts

Serviss describes it as falling to the horizon "in flakes and sheets of silvery splendor." Through binoculars we behold a vista of seemingly countess stars, "like a stupendous cavern of space all ablaze and aglitter with millions of sparkling gems." The Sagittarius Milky Way is also a cradle place of newborn stars, a home for aged stars, and a resting place for those that have reached the end of their lives.

Where glows the Milky Way: Sagittarius is the mother lode of star clusters and nebulae

The Bench table last night was aglitter with showbiz endorsers.

PAL now has excellent service, good food-and hopefully can be on time soon

soft sweet mouth hands gossamer tips aglitter. The girl shielding from

Songs for Sirens, Ditties for Titties

Ndebele culture is thus aglitter with ennobling perspectives on women.

The private/public space dichotomy: an Africana Womanist analysis of the gendering of space and power

before a ten-cent Cinema, a sugar-coated box-office enjail a Goddess aglitter, in her runt of a tower, with ritual claustrophobia.

Mina Loy and the Hollywood Industry

They find themselves wandering through prairies aglitter with butterflies, restored wetland, and shaded hardwood forest, ending at the nature center, not far from the house where Leonard still lives.

A forest grows in Iowa: in a place where forests and woodlands are rare, one family-run farm is restoring Iowa's original landscape

Moshe is just a bratty kid." She bit her lips, her cheeks flushed with shame, her eyes aglitter with anger.

Batya