Synonyms for glance
glæns, glɑnsglance

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1. glanceverb

   To look briefly (at something).

   She glanced at her reflection as she passed the mirror.

   Synonyms:
   glimpse

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1. glance

   To see is simply to become conscious of an object of vision; to look is to make a conscious and direct endeavor to see. To behold is to fix the sight and the mind with distinctness and consideration upon something that has come to be clearly before the eyes. We may look without seeing, as in pitch-darkness, and we may see without looking, as in case of a flash of lightning. To gaze is to look intently, long, and steadily upon an object. To glance is to look casually or momentarily. To stare is to look with a fixed intensity such as is the effect of surprise, alarm, or rudeness. To scan is to look at minutely, to note every visible feature. To inspect is to go below the surface, uncover, study item by item. View and survey are comprehensive, survey expressing the greater exactness of measurement or estimate. Watch brings in the element of time and often of wariness; we watch for a movement or change, a signal, the approach of an enemy, etc. Compare APPEAR.

   Synonyms:
   behold, contemplate, descry, discern, gaze, inspect, look, regard, scan, see, stare, survey, view, watch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. glance, glimpse, coup d'oeilverb

   a quick look

   Synonyms:
   glimpse, coup d'oeil

2. glance, peek, glintverb

   throw a glance at; take a brief look at

   "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting"

   Synonyms:
   gleam, glisten, shine, glitter, peek, glint

3. glanceverb

   hit at an angle

   Synonyms:
   peek, glint

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1. quick look

   to look and put your eyes away. the eyes is not glued to what its look. it was quick look. he glanced at the house.

   Submitted by halimat_l on November 30, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. glancenoun

   Synonyms:
   glitter, gleam

2. glancenoun

   Synonyms:
   glimpse, transitory view, rapid look

3. glanceverb

   Synonyms:
   glitter, gleam, shine

4. glanceverb

   Synonyms:
   flit, dart, snatch a momentary look

5. glanceverb

   Synonyms:
   dart aside, fly off obliquely

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1. glancenoun

   Synonyms:
   glimpse, allusion, gleam, flash, glitter

2. glanceverb

   Synonyms:
   glimpse, allude, hint, gleam, beam, glitter

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1. List of paraphrases for "glance":

   peek, sight, look, view, overview, wink, vista, look-see, eye, jiffy, heartbeat

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1. List of known nicknames for "Glance":

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How to use glance in a sentence?

1. Lidia Maksymowicz:

   We understood each other with a glance.

2. Harriet Martineau:

   Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

3. Janine Barchas:

   There have been a number of medical historians in the past, since the mid-1960s, who have diagnosed Jane Austen in absentia and who have used new medical knowledge as it has become available to glance back at the death of Jane Austen, who did die prematurely.

4. Heinrich Heine:

   The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

5. Mhairi Brown:

   Labels allow people to just glance at a product, and see if it is a healthy or less healthy choice.