• IPA: /ɡliːm/

gleam (plural gleams)

1. a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light.

   • A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.

2. a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something.

   The rescue workers preserved a gleam of optimism that they might still survive.

3. brightness or shininess; splendor.
   • 1713, Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest:

     In the clear azure gleam the flocks are seen.

• (small shaft or stream of light) beam, ray
• (glimpse or indistinct sign) flicker, glimmer, trace
• (brightness or splendor) dazzle, lambency, shine

• French: rayon, reflet, miroitement
• German: Schein, Schimmer
• Russian: (сла́бый) свет

• German: Funke
• Russian: про́блеск

• German: Glanz
• Russian: (flash) вспы́шка

gleam (gleams, present participle gleaming; past and past participle gleamed) (intransitive)

1. To shine; to glitter; to glisten.
2. To be briefly but strongly apparent.
3. (obsolete, falconry) To disgorge filth, as a hawk.

• (to shine, glitter, or glisten) glint, sparkle
• (to radiate or emanate) glow, shine
• (to be briefly but strongly apparent) flare, flash, kindle

• French: luire