glamour
/ˈɡlæmə/
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British/ˈɡlamə/
glamour noun: 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.
Noun
glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)
- 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.
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
To one another seldom, for their woe
Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak
Itself abroad; and if at whiles it grow
To frenzy which must rave, none heeds the clamour,
Unless there waits some victim of like glamour,
To rave in turn, who lends...1882, James Thomson (B. V.), The City of Dreadful Night
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
- Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- glamour magazines; a glamour model
- Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.
- “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.”1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- When the golden October comes, with its witching of hazy air that makes a glamour for all things and any landscape, we shall see these offspring of poetic myth stretch out beside the creeks, breaking the tender hulls for their magical chincapins, and feeding on them and on the dreams of which they...1861 October, “The Nelumbium Luteum, or Yellow Egyptian Lotus.”, in Thomas Meehan, editor, The Gardner’s Monthly and Advertiser Horticultural, volume III, number 10, 23 North Sixth Street...
- An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
- A beautiful woman.
- One of the Qantas staff, a glamour, made her way over to us.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 214
Verb
glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)
glamour meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
glamour in Hindi
- beauty or charm
- आभा ābhā, सौन्दर्य saundarya
glamour in Tamil
- கவர் அழகு, வசீகரம், கவர்ச்சி
glamour in Marathi
- ग्लॅमर, ग्लॅमरिंग
glamour in Urdu
- فریفتگی, سحر, فریفتہ کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- glamour in Bengali
- মোহনীয়তা, আকর্ষণ
- glamour in Telugu
- గ్లామర్, గ్లామరింగ్, గ్లామర్ గా
- glamour in Malayalam
- രമണീയത്വം, മോഹനം, വശീകരണം, ആഭിചാരം
- glamour in Kannada
- ಇಂದ್ರಜಾಲ, ಮಾಯಾಜಾಲ, ಭ್ರಾಮಕ, ಸೊಬಗು
- glamour in Punjabi
- ਗਲੈਮਰ, ਗਲੇਮਰ, ਗਲੈਮਰਿੰਗ
- glamour in Gujarati
- ગ્લેમર, ગ્લૈમર, ગ્લૅમર
- glamour in Odia
- ଗ୍ଲାମର, ଗ୍ଲାମରିଂ, ଗ୍ଲେମରିଂ
- glamour in Assamese
- যাদু zadu
- glamour in Nepali
- ग्लैमर, ग्ल्यामर, ग्ल्यामरिंग
Examples of glamour in a sentence
- He was seduced by the bright lights and glamour of the city.
- Being the daughter of an A-list celebrity, she grew up in a world of glitz and glamour.
- Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish.
Synonyms of glamour
Forms of glamour
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | glamours |
| alternative US | glamor |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | glamours |
| present participle | glamouring |
| past participle | glamoured |
| past | glamoured |
Origin of glamour
Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire. A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (“the moon", also "the name of a ghost”, poetic byname, literally “the pale one”) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”). From Grettir's Saga aka Grettis Saga, one of the Sagas of Icelanders, after the hero has been cursed by Glam, aka Glamr: "...he was become so fearsome a man in the dark, that he durst go nowhither alone after nightfall, for then he seemed to see all kinds of horrors. And that has fallen since into a proverb, that "Glam lends eyes", or gives Glamsight to those who see things nowise as they are."
Words formed from glamour
- beglammer
- beglamour
- beglamourment
- englamour
- glam
- glamazonian
- glambassador
- glammed up
- glamorous
- glamourous
- glamorously
- glamourama
- glamourful
- glamour girl
- glamourise
- glamour issue
- glamourization
- glamourize
- glamourless
- glamour model
- glamour photography
- glamourpuss
- glamour-puss
- glamoursome
- glamourwear
- glam rock
- glitz and glamour
Phrases with glamour
Words that rhyme with glamour
Questions about glamour
- What does glamour mean?
- Glamour means 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.
- What is glamour in Hindi?
- Glamour in Hindi is आभा (ābhā), सौन्दर्य (saundarya). See Glamour meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is glamour?
- Glamour can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce glamour?
- Glamour is pronounced /ˈɡlæmə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of glamour?
- The plural of glamour is glamours.
Words near glamour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: glamour (page history and authors); glamour (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glamour (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glamour (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glamour (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glamour (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glamour (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glamour (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); glamour (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glamour (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); glamour (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); যাদু (Assamese) (page history and authors); glamour (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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