sheen

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 shēn

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Splendor; radiance; shininess. also,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — There is a greenish sheen across the shoulders of his greasy black suit, for the morning light has of a sudden begun to dance through the bay window.
  2. The letter ش in the Arabic script.
  3. A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface. countable,uncountable
    — oil sheen
动词 v.
  1. To shine; to glisten. intransitive,poetic,rare
    — This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.
形容词 adj.
  1. Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny. archaic,poetic,rare,usually
    — Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
  2. Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste. archaic,poetic,rare,usually
    — […] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen Her brooks receive the wat'ry element, […]

词形变化

sheener comparative sheenest superlative sheens plural sheens present,singular,third-person sheening participle,present sheened participle,past sheened past sheens plural

词汇关系

衍生词
sheenly jadesheen olivesheen sheenful sheenless sheen obsidian sheeny

词源

From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.
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