Noun: shine
| Singular | shine |
| Plural | shines |
Sample Sentences
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the distant shine of the celestial city [1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:]
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Take a shine. You need it. [1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):]
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be fair or foul, or rain or shine [1685, John Dryden, Sylvae:]
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"If you want your black head blown off, shine, you just make a move to stop us." [1970, Wally Feris, Across 110th, page 152:]
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She's certainly taken a shine to you.
Nouns inflected like shine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
2. Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína. See: Old English Nouns '
sċīnan'.
Verbs referencing "shine"
Swedish Nouns
sken, Latin Nouns
scintilla, German Nouns
Schein, Dutch Nouns
schijn.