Glimpse

Pronunciation

• IPA: /É¡lɪmps/
• Rhymes: -ɪmps

Full definition of glimpse

Noun

1. A brief look, glance, or peek.
   I only got a glimpse of the car, so I can tell you the colour but not the registration number.
• Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)Here hid by shrub wood, there by glimpses seen.
• 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 1/2, Selwyn ..., after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around...to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure ... and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
2. A sudden flash.
• John Milton (1608-1674)Light as the lightning glimpse they ran.
3. A faint idea; an inkling.

Verb

1. (transitive) To see or view briefly or incompletely.I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.
2. To appear by glimpses.

Synonyms

• perceive, notice, detect, spot, catch sight of