shine
/ʃaɪn/ noun C2- Brightness from a source of light.
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Shoeshine.
- Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
- Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- A black person.
- The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
Plural shines
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“He’s a fine looking fellow,” said another; “if he had only a comb and hair-grease, he’d take the shine off the gentlemen in white kids.”
And yet once or twice he saw the pure gold of this girl shine through the mist that his egotism had raised between him and all objects.
Oh, how it did shine in the sunlight!
It’s a ray of light which will forever shine on the darkness of a path severed from thee, Diana.
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