shone
SHOHN/ʃoʊn/UKSHON/ʃɒn/
- 1Simple past and past participle of shine.
The full moon shone across the quiet harbor.
The lamp had shone all night before someone finally switched it off.
Note
One spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle: the moon shone, the lamp had shone. It belongs to the intransitive verb, so it covers glowing and reflecting light as well as the figurative uses, like a student who shone in mathematics or a truth that shone through. When the verb takes an object, as in polishing shoes, the regular shined is the more usual form.
shone is a form of shine
shine, verb: To give off or reflect light so as to look bright or glowing. Full entry
- Spelling
- shine → shone: irregular (no -ed)
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