different between shone vs shode

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, Received Pronunciation, General Australian, Canada)
  • enPR: sh?n, IPA^(key): /??n/
  • Rhymes: -?n
• (US)
  • enPR: sh?n, IPA^(key): /?o?n/
  • Rhymes: -??n
  • Homophone: shown

Verb

shone

1. simple past tense and past participle of shine

Anagrams

• hones, hosen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• schon, scone, shene

Etymology

From Old English sc?ne, sc?one (“beautiful, fair, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *skauniz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?oun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”). Compare Middle Dutch scone (“beautiful, bright”), Dutch schoon (“beautiful”), German schön (“beautiful”).

Adjective

shone

1. beautiful, glorious, excellent, resplendent, noble
   • Sainte Nicholaes, godes druþ, tymbre us faire scone hus! — Sainte Nicholaes godes druþ, 1225

     (St. Nicolas, beloved by God, build us beautiful, resplendent house!)

   • As glysnande golde ... So schon þat schene ... On lenghe I loked to hyr. — Pearl, 1400

     (As glistening gold ... So beautiful that sheen ... Longingly I looked at her.)

Descendants

• English: sheen

References

• “sh??ne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

shode (plural shodes)

1. Alternative spelling of shoad

Verb

shode (third-person singular simple present shodes, present participle shoding, simple past and past participle shoded)

1. Alternative spelling of shoad

Anagrams

• Doseh, hodes, hosed, shoed