BEAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beaming mean? 

• BEAMING (adjective)
  The adjective BEAMING has 3 senses:

1. cheerful and bright

2. pleased and proud

3. radiating or as if radiating light

  Familiarity information: BEAMING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEAMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cheerful and bright

Synonyms:

beaming; glad

Context example:

a glad May morning

Similar:

cheerful (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pleased and proud

Context example:

beaming parents

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Radiating or as if radiating light

Synonyms:

beaming; beamy; effulgent; radiant; refulgent

Context example:

a refulgent sunset

Similar:

bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)

 Context examples 

Remarkably, all the planets in your house of truelove—Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto—will be beaming their support. Wow!

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"Boy and girl. Aren't they beauties?" said the proud papa, beaming upon the little red squirmers as if they were unfledged angels.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Then I am delighted to say,” cried Traddles, beaming with joy, “that we have recovered the whole money!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Your soft eyes shall chuse their own time for beaming.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In the case of Sharpless 2-54, British astronomer William Herschel initially noticed its beaming star cluster in 1784.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

It was three o'clock; the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“You, doctor! Top o' the morning to you, sir!” cried Silver, broad awake and beaming with good nature in a moment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

No, it is not thus; your form so divinely wrought, and beaming with beauty, has decayed, but your spirit still visits and consoles your unhappy friend.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Personally, I was with Challenger, who was in a beatific humor, moving about as one in a silent ecstasy and beaming benevolence from every feature.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The spacecraft is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data collected during its passage.

(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)