shone

• (UK, Received Pronunciation)
  • enPR: shŏn, IPA^(key): /ʃɒn/

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  • Rhymes: -ɒn
• (US)
  • enPR: shōn, IPA^(key): /ʃoʊn/

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  • Rhymes: -əʊn
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ʃɑn/

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  • Rhymes: -ɒn
• (General Australian)
  • Homophone: shown

shone

1. simple past and past participle of shine

• hones, hosen

• IPA^(key):

shone m

1. vocative singular of shon

• schon, scone, shene

From Old English scȳne, scēone (“beautiful, fair, bright”), from Proto-Germanic *skauniz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱoun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”). Compare Middle Dutch scone (“beautiful, bright”), Dutch schoon (“beautiful”), German schön (“beautiful”).

shone

1. beautiful, glorious, excellent, resplendent, noble
   • Sainte Nicholaes, godes druþ, tymbre us faire scone hus! — Sainte Nicholaes godes druþ, 1225

     St. Nicolas, beloved by God, build us beautiful, resplendent houses!

   • As glysnande golde ... So schon þat schene ... On lenghe I loked to hyr. — Pearl, 1400

     As glistening gold ... So beautiful that sheen ... Longingly I looked at her.

• English: sheen

• “shẹ̄ne, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.