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sheen

adj
/ʃiːn/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *(s)kewh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *skauniz✻
  3. inherited from *skaunī✻
  4. inherited from sċīene — “beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”
  5. inherited from shene

Definitions

  1. Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair

    Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.

    • Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
    • The doleful Dumps I sing, and tearful Woes, Of Marian teeming with unlawful Throes: The sheenest Lass in Berkshire was she known, Of all that Butter fell to Reading Town: […]
    • […] Would'st hear, what dims those eyes so sheen?

  2. Clear, pure, clean

    Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.

    • […] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen Her brooks receive the wat'ry element, […]
    • 'Twas not when early flowers were springing, When skies were sheen, And wheat was green, […]
    • […] Hard by yon little fountain, clear and sheen, Whose swollen streamlet murmurs down the glade, […]

  3. Splendor

    Splendor; radiance; shininess.

    • 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.
    • Mr. Leerhsen said in an interview that he wanted to write a book without the dutiful sheen of what he called “an official Bourdain product.”
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

      • oil sheen
      • Perhaps the simplest of sauces is the pat of butter dropped on a heap of hot vegetables, or stirred into rice or noodles, or drawn across the surface of an omelet or steak to give a sheen.

    2. To shine

      To shine; to glisten.

      • This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

    3. The letter ش in the Arabic script.

    4. An area of Greater London, officially East Sheen.

    5. A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England,…

      A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1161).

    6. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sheen. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01sheen02illustrious03well-known04famous05excellent06splendid07shining

A definitional loop anchored at sheen. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at sheen

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA