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brilliance

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: br?ly?ns
  • IPA(key): /?b??lj?n(t)s/

Etymology

Borrowed from French brillance.

Noun

brilliance (usually uncountable, plural brilliances)

  1. The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).
  2. The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.
  3. (chiefly Britain) Magnificence; resplendence.

Derived terms

  • brilliancy

Related terms

  • brilliant
  • brilliantly
  • brilliantness
  • beryl (possibly)
  • beryllium (possibly)

Translations

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moonbeam

English

Etymology

In William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream 1590. Compound of moon +? beam.

Pronunciation

  • (US) enPR: mo?on'b?m, IPA(key): /?mun.bim/

Noun

moonbeam (plural moonbeams)

  1. A shaft of moonlight.
  2. Moonlight generally.
  3. Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Philiris.
  4. (definition needed)
    • 1980: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker
      While you're responding to the dithering confusing Lynda is causing in the bus depot, you're absorbing the emotions between mother and child. Darcy is often very grownup around her mother, as if she knew that Lynda is a bit of a moonbeam and needs looking after.

Synonyms

  • moon ray

Translations

See also

  • sunbeam

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