glare

English

Etymology

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-West Germanic *glāʀōn. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlɛɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡlɛə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

Noun

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.

4. (telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
5. (US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.

   a glare of ice

6. A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

Derived terms

• aglare
• anti-glare
• death glare
• glare filter
• glaringly

 

Translations

light

• Bulgarian: блясък (bg) m (bljasǎk)
• Catalan: brillantor (ca) f, esclat (ca) m, ressol (ca) m (of the sun)
• Czech: záře (cs) f
• Danish: blændende lys
• Finnish: häikäisevä valo
• French: éclat (fr)
• Galician: lampexo (gl) m, relostro m, luzada f, lampo (gl) m, fogaxe f, fachada f
• German: Blendung (de) f
• Irish: dallrú m
• Italian: bagliore (it) m, lampo (it) m
• Manx: ard-sollys m
• Maori: kōnakonako
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenskinn n

  Nynorsk: gjenskin n

• Polish: blask (pl) m
• Portuguese: clarão (pt) m
• Spanish: deslumbramiento (es) m, deslumbre (es) m
• Volapük: tulit
• Welsh: llewyrch m, llewych m

brilliance

• Danish: skin (da)
• Finnish: komeilu (fi), prameilu (fi), pöyhkeily (fi)
• French: éclat (fr)
• Galician: lampexo (gl) m, relostro m, luzada f, brillo (gl) m, fogaxe f, crarén m
• Polish: blask (pl) m

angry or fierce stare

• Bulgarian: втренчен поглед (vtrenčen pogled)
• Czech: zlostný pohled (cs) m
• Danish: gennemborende blik n
• Finnish: vihainen tuijotus, vihainen katse, mulkoilu
• Galician: relance m, olleirada f, olladela f, fitada f
• German: entrüstetes Starren
• Irish: súil fhiata f, drochshúil f
• Italian: frecciata (it) f
• Spanish: mirada fulminante f
• Welsh: hylldrem f

Verb

glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)

1. (intransitive) To stare angrily.

   He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza XXXIX:

     eye that scorcheth all it glares upon

   • 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 110:

     Thor glared at him with hard coal-black eyes[.]

2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. (intransitive) To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   • 18th century, Alexander Pope, Epistle V to Miss Blount

     She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

Coordinate terms

• scowl

Derived terms

• glare daggers

Translations

to stare angrily

• Bulgarian: гледам втренчено (gledam vtrenčeno)
• Czech: zlostně hledět (cs) impf
• Danish: stirre, glo
• Finnish: tuijottaa vihaisesti, mulkoilla (fi), mulkaista (fi)
• German: missbilligend anstarren
• Hindi: तरेरना (hi) (tarernā)
• Korean: 노려보다 (noryeoboda)
• Maori: whakakarukaru, hīnana, koira, whākanakana
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stirre (no), glo (no), skule (no)

• Portuguese: fulminar com os olhos
• Spanish: mirar fulminantemente

to shine brightly

• Czech: zářit (cs) impf, planout (cs) impf
• Danish: skinne, blænde
• Finnish: paahtaa (fi) (of sun esp.); loistaa (fi)
• Ingrian: häjätä
• Portuguese: brilhar (pt), reluzir (pt)
• Russian: слепить (ru) (slepitʹ)

to be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid

• Czech: zářit (cs)
• Finnish: säteillä (fi), loistaa (fi)

to shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light

• Finnish: loistaa (fi), leiskua (fi)

Adjective

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

1. (US, of ice) smooth and bright or translucent; glary

   skating on glare ice

Anagrams

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, lager, large, regal

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish glór.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɛːr/

Noun

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

1. speech
2. language, parlance
3. utterance

Derived terms

• glare-vroghe
• glareydagh (“linguistic; linguist”)
• lioar-ghlare (“literary language”)
• neughlaragh (“voiceless”)

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
glare	ghlare	nglare
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.