verb · irregular · intransitive · rare

glister

glister · glisters · glistered · glistering

To gleam, glisten, or coruscateTo gleam, glisten, or coruscate.

/ˈɡlɪstɚ/

» All that glisters is not gold.

Nicht alles, was glitzert, ist Gold.

Nicht alles, was rund ist, ist eine Nuss.

Meaning

1 senses

(archaic)To gleam, glisten, or coruscate.
блесте́тьblestétʹ

Examples

1 sentences

All that glisters is not gold.
deNicht alles, was glitzert, ist Gold.
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Translations

2 languages

Русский

to gleam, glisten, or coruscate:

Origin

From Middle English glisteren, either borrowed from or related to Middle Low German and/or

From Middle English glisteren, either borrowed from or related to Middle Low German and/or Middle Dutch glisteren; like a host of other Germanic words in gl- related to shining, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley-.

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Forms

glisters, glistering, glistered, glistered

Base form	glister · to glister
3rd person singular	glisters
Present participle	glistering
Past simple	glistered
Past participle	glistered

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, they	glister
he, she, it	glisters

Past simpleLesson

all persons

glistered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, they	have glistered
he, she, it	has glistered

Future simple (will)Lesson