sheene

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃiːn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

sheene (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sheen.
    • 1887, Various, Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age‎[1]:
      If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; / If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; / If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; / If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; / If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; / If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene: / But that which fairest is but few behold, / Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold."

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV sheene
Brazilian standard sheene
New Tribes sheene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃeːne]

Adverb

sheene

  1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) alternative form of seene (“being green or blue, grue; being unripe, green”)
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