allure
/əˈlʊə/US/əˈlʊɚ/
allure noun: the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
Noun (1)
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
Verb
allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)
- To entice; to attract.
- [They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371
- Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Noun (2)
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
allure meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
allure in Tamil
- கவர்ந்திடு, சிக்கவை, வயப்படுத்து, கவர்ச்சி, மருட்சிப்பொருள், மயக்கு
allure in Urdu
- چاٹ دینا, لالچ دلانا, لبھانا
allure in Bengali
- আকর্ষণ, লোভ
allure in Telugu
- to allure
- ప్రలోభపెట్టు pralōbhapeṭṭu, ప్రలోభించు pralōbhiñcu
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- allure in Malayalam
- മോഹിപ്പിക്കുക, വശീകരിക്കുക, പ്രലോഭിപ്പിക്കുക, അടുപ്പിക്കുക
- allure in Kannada
- ಸೆಳೆತ, ಎಳೆತ, ಮೋಹಕ, ಮರುಳು
- allure in Sanskrit
- लुभ् lubh
- allure in Persian
- جذبه jazabe
Examples of allure in a sentence
- The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.
- Part of the allure of leapfrogging was the difficulty of simply catching up.
- She was also as mad as a cut snake, which only added to her allure.
Synonyms of allure
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Antonyms
Forms of allure
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | allures |
| alternative form | alure |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | allures |
| present participle | alluring |
| past participle | allured |
| past | allured |
Origin of allure
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.
From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.
Words formed from allure
Words that rhyme with allure
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- muir
- obscure
- amour
- assure
- boor
- immure
- impure
- lure
- recure
- immature
- inure
- manure
- moor
- cour
- Darfur
- demure
- du jour
- fure
- insecure
- liqueur
- mure
- reassure
- roture
- Ruhr
- unsure
- adure
- bonheur du jour
- bonjour
- brochure
- bure
- chaussure
- combure
- couture
- de jour
- dhuhr
- dure
- guipure
- Kapur
- L'Anse Amour
- Namur
- parkour
- parure
- plat du jour
- poseur
- purpure
- smoor
- soup du jour
- spoor
Questions about allure
- What does allure mean?
- Allure means the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
- What is allure in Tamil?
- Allure in Tamil is கவர்ந்திடு, சிக்கவை, வயப்படுத்து. See Allure meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is allure?
- Allure can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce allure?
- Allure is pronounced /əˈlʊɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of allure?
- The plural of allure is allures.
Words near allure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: allure (page history and authors); allure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allure (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ప్రలోభపెట్టు (Telugu) (page history and authors); allure (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); allure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); लुभ् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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