ashimmer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Shimmering; covered (with something shimmering).
Example Sentences
- "1875, Charles F. Deems, “Relations of the University to Religion” in Dedication and Inauguration of the Vanderbilt University, Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, p. 65, […] each great wing is like an unmeasured milky-way, ashimmer with the mystic splendor of all stars."
- "The sun had set the peak of Olympus all ashimmer."
- "The solitary vessel was the only moving thing on the sea that morning when the east turned gray and the black water came ashimmer with silver light."
- "resplendent, living oysters, ashimmer on their silvery shells, their pewter plate"
Etymology
From a- + shimmer.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a