glean
verb /ɡliːn/
/ɡliːn/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they glean | /ɡliːn/ /ɡliːn/ |
| he / she / it gleans | /ɡliːnz/ /ɡliːnz/ |
| past simple gleaned | /ɡliːnd/ /ɡliːnd/ |
| past participle gleaned | /ɡliːnd/ /ɡliːnd/ |
| -ing form gleaning | /ˈɡliːnɪŋ/ /ˈɡliːnɪŋ/ |
- glean something (from somebody/something) to obtain information, knowledge, etc., sometimes with difficulty and often from various different places
- These figures have been gleaned from a number of studies.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGlean is used with these nouns as the object:- information
- insight
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French glener, from late Latin glennare, probably of Celtic origin.