glare

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-Germanic *glēzāną. 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.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡlɛəɹ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡlɛə/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

1. (uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare

2. Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
3. An angry or fierce stare.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     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.

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.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Byron

     an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon

2. (intransitive) To shine brightly.

   The sun glared down on the desert sand.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     The cavern glares with new-admitted light.

3. To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

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

4. (transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

• scowl

• aglare
• glaringly
• glare filter

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

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

   skating on glare ice

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

From Old Irish glór.

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

1. speech
2. language, parlance
3. utterance

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