shone

verbgive off or reflect light
verbpolish, burnish

Synonyms for shone

verb give off or reflect light

Antonyms for shone

Word Origin & History

Old English scinan "shed light, be radiant, be resplendent, iluminate," of persons, "be conspicuous" (class I strong verb; past tense scan, past participle scinen), from Proto-Germanic *skinan (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German skinan, Old Norse and Old Frisian skina, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Gothic skeinan "to shine, appear"), from PIE root *skai- (2) "to gleam, shine, flicker" (cf. Sanskrit chaya "brilliance, luster; shadow," Greek skia "shade," Old Church Slavonic sinati "to flash up, shine," Albanian he "shadow"). Transitive meaning "to black (boots)" is from 1610s. Related: Shined (in the shoe polish sense), otherwise shone; shining.

Example Sentences for shone

For that one moment the despair that was in him shone in his eyes.

In the latter's eyes, for the first time, shone a real and ungrudging admiration.

The roads were frozen hard, and shone like silver in the ruts.

It was the same—the same face that shone across me in that hour of pain!

Last of all, Venus shone upon him, beautiful as none can ever hope to be.

In all other respects, save one, he shone with no light but such as was reflected from his brother.

Was there no party of her own, in other times, on which the stars had shone?

The star had shone on her face until now, when her face sank upon his hand and her own.

I am in love with one of the most beautiful girls the sun ever shone upon.

The light flashed and was gone, flashed again and shone no more.