Synonyms for lambent

Grammar : Adj

Spell : lam-buh nt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlæm bənt

Définition of lambent

Origin : 1640s, from figurative use of Latin lambentem (nominative lambens), present participle of lambere "to lick," from PIE root *lab-, indicative of smacking lips or licking (cf. Greek laptein "to sip, lick," Old English lapian "to lick, lap up, suck;" see lap (v.1)).

adj luminous

Example sentences :

Just as we were parting at the door, Helen turned full on me her great, lambent eyes.
Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark

A sudden tremor seemed to shake the lambent flame that had lured him on.
Extract from : « Flip: A California Romance » by Bret Harte

Venus flamed a lambent disk of pale saffron, low over the horizon.
Extract from : « The Octopus » by Frank Norris

This time he might return, immaculate, from the path of that "lambent flamelet."
Extract from : « Browning's Heroines » by Ethel Colburn Mayne

Their eyes are luminous and lambent, but it is a melancholy light.
Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV » by Various

Every now and then there would come a lambent flash of lightning.
Extract from : « The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner » by Wilbur Lawton

She smiled again in that lambent heat-lightning way of hers.
Extract from : « Command » by William McFee

Madame's gray eyes, full of lambent fires, looked into his own.
Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath

Within the room to which it belonged a lambent light played.
Extract from : « Brood of the Witch-Queen » by Sax Rohmer

The Wondership staggered and then seemed to leap into lambent flame.
Extract from : « The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone » by Richard Bonner

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