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English
Pronunciation
Verb
shone
- simple past and past participle of shine
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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
shone m
- vocative singular of shon
Middle English
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Etymology
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”).
Adjective
shone
- 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.
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