Glamour

Quick meaning: Glamour is a noun meaning (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).

Meaning

(uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
2. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
4. (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
5. (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
6. (uncountable) Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous.
7. (slang, countable) A beautiful woman.

Example Sentences

glamour magazines; a glamour model

The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.

One of the Qantas staff, a glamour, made her way over to us.

“The North Pole was one of these places, I remember. Well, I haven’t been there yet, and shall not try now. The glamour’s off.”

Word Forms

• glamours
• glamor
• glamouring
• glamoured

Synonyms for glamour

Depending on context, synonyms include beglammer, englamour, witch, bechat, becry, bespell.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glamor, enchant, bewitch, hex, witch, jinx.

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