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Radiant   /rˈeɪdiənt/  /rˈeɪdjənt/   Listen
adjective
Radiant  adj.  
1.
Emitting or proceeding as from a center; resembling rays; radiating; radiate.
2.
Especially, emitting or darting rays of light or heat; issuing in beams or rays; beaming with brightness; emitting a vivid light or splendor; as, the radiant sun. "Mark what radiant state she spreads."
3.
Beaming with vivacity and happiness; as, a radiant face.
4.
(Her.) Giving off rays; said of a bearing; as, the sun radiant; a crown radiant.
5.
(Bot.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers.
6.
(Physics) Emitted or transmitted by radiation; as, a radiant energy; radiant heat.
Radiant energy (Physics), energy given out or transmitted by radiation, as in the case of light and radiant heat.
Radiant heat, heat proceeding in right lines, or directly from the heated body, after the manner of light, in distinction from heat conducted or carried by intervening media.
Radiant point. (Astron.) See Radiant, n., 3.



noun
Radiant  n.  
1.
(Opt.) The luminous point or object from which light emanates; also, a body radiating light brightly.
2.
(Geom.) A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.
3.
(Astron.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.






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"Radiant" Quotes from Famous Books



... to delight to wait on him, to pack and unpack for him, to call him in the mornings, and secretly to purchase clothes and toilet articles to replace anything worn out or lost. In later days the thought that he was coming home used to make her radiant for days before. She used to come tapping at my door before dinner, and sit down for a little talk. "I know what you are thinking about, Beth!" "What is it, dear?" "Why, about Hugh, of course! You don't care for anyone else when he is coming." "No, don't say that, dear—but I am ...
— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson

... ours, and we have an interest in that radiant Personality if we choose to claim it by faith, love, and obedience. We are free to accept God as ours or to ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... suddenly in upon the scene, and we were back in a moment in the garden with its porticoes, in the radiant, untroubled air. Amroth looked at me with a smile that was full, half of gaiety and half of tenderness. "There," he said, "what do you think of that? If all had gone well with me, as they say on earth, that is where I should be now, going down to the city ...
— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson

... as new as it was bewildering. Yet, for all its bewilderment, he saw at a glance how real it was, and how true. It was the light of the sun that shone there which made those shadows which till now he had thought to be in themselves so radiant. ...
— Daisy's Aunt • E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

... Oh, by thy radiant hair and by the glow Of thy full eyes,—and by thy breast of snow,— And by the buds thereof that have the flush Of infant roses when they strive to blush,— And by thy voice, melodious as a bell That rings for prayer in God's high citadel,— By all these ...
— A Lover's Litanies • Eric Mackay


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