shone

English

Pronunciation

• (RP, Australia, Canada)
  • enPR: shŏn, IPA: /ʃɒn/, X-SAMPA: /SQn/
  • Rhymes: -ɒn
• (US)
  • enPR: shōn, IPA: /ʃoʊn/, X-SAMPA: /SoUn/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn

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Verb

shone

1. simple past tense and past participle of shine

Anagrams

• hones
• hosen

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• schon
• scone
• shene

Etymology

From Old English scȳne, sceōne (“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

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 house!)

   • 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.)

References

• Middle English dictionary (shone)