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glam·our

also glam·or (glăm′ər)

1. Exciting or mysterious attractiveness usually associated with striking physical beauty, luxury, or celebrity.

2. Archaic Magic cast by a spell; enchantment.

[Scots, magic spell, alteration of grammar (from the association of learning with magic).]

Usage Note: Many words, such as honor, vapor, and labor, are usually spelled with an -or ending in American English but with an -our ending in British English. The preferred spelling of glamour, however, is -our, making it an exception to the usual American practice. The adjective is more often spelled glamorous in both American and British usage.

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glamour

(ˈɡlæmə) or

glamor

1. charm and allure; fascination

a. fascinating or voluptuous beauty, often dependent on artifice

b. (as modifier): a glamour girl.

3. archaic a magic spell; charm

[C18: Scottish variant of grammar (hence a magic spell, because occult practices were popularly associated with learning)]

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glam•our

or glam•or

(ˈglæm ər)

n.

1. the quality of fascinating, alluring, or attracting, esp. by a combination of charm and good looks.

2. excitement, adventure, and unusual activity: the glamour of being an explorer.

3. magic or enchantment; spell; witchery.

adj.

4. suggestive or full of glamour: a glamour job in television.

[1710–20; earlier glammar, dissimilated variant of grammar in sense “occult learning”]

glamour

- First meant "magic, enchantment" or "art of contriving magic spells."

glamour

noun

1. charm, appeal, beauty, attraction, fascination, allure, magnetism, enchantment, bewitchment Her air of mystery only added to her glamour.

2. excitement, magic, thrill, romance, prestige, glitz (slang) the glamour of show biz

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

glamour

also glamor
noun

The power or quality of attracting:

allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, call, charisma, charm, draw, enchantment, enticement, fascination, lure, magnetism, witchery.

Informal: pull.

Translations

بَريق، رَوْنَقسِحْر

kouzlopřitažlivostpůvabšarm

glamourglanstrylleskær

Glanz Zauber

glamour atractivo encanto

charme gloire séduction

varázsavarázslatos szépség

dÿrîarljómi

fascino fotografia erotica fotografia sexy incanto mitizzare

burvībašarmsvaldzinājums

glitter overflatisk skjønnhet sminket skjønnhet tilgjort skjønnhet

büyüleyicilikcazibeçekicilikgüzellik

妖艳粉饰出的美貌或魅力诱惑力魅力

glamour

glamor (US) [ˈglæməʳ]

A. N [of person, job, place] → glamour m

B. CPD glamour boy N → niño m bonito
glamour girl N → belleza f
glamour sport N → deporte m rodeado de glamour

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glamour

[ˈglæmə^r] glamor (US) n → éclat m, prestige m

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glamour

, (US) glamor

n → Glamour m; (of occasion, situation) → Glanz m; she/the job doesn’t have much glamour → sie/dieser Beruf hat keinen besonderen Reiz; she has glamour as well as prettiness → sie ist nicht nur hübsch, sondern besitzt auch noch einen besonderen Reiz

glamour

, (US) glamor:

glamour boy

n (inf) → Schönling m (inf)

glamour girl

n (inf) → Glamourgirl nt

glamour model

n → Pin-up-Girl nt

glamourpuss

n (esp Brit inf: = female) → Glamourkätzchen nt (inf); (= male) → Schönling m (inf)

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glamour

glamor (Am) [ˈglæməʳ] n → fascino

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glamour

(ˈglӕmə) (American) glamor noun

1. the often false or superficial beauty or charm which attracts. the glamour of a career in films.

2. great beauty or charm, achieved with the aid of make-up, beautiful clothes etc. the glamour of film stars.

ˈglamorize, ˈglamorise verb

to make glamorous. This film attempts to glamorize war.

ˈglamorous adjective

having glamour.

ˈglamorously adverb

glamour, noun, ends in -our.
glamorous, adjective is spelt with -or-.

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There then remain, to assist the doctor and Tom, only those three other regular customers, Bob Glamour, William Williams, and Jonathan (family name of the latter, if any, unknown to man-kind), who are quite enough.

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When one talks of the Thames docks, "beauty" is a vain word, but romance has lived too long upon this river not to have thrown a mantle of glamour upon its banks.

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In reading poetry, though we may not always understand every word of it, we want to feel the thrill and glamour of it.

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I purposely waived the glamour which my old garden had for my mind, and which I wouldn't have exchanged for fifty parks.

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With a slight rustle of her white dress trimmed with moss and ivy, with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and sparkling diamonds, she passed between the men who made way for her, not looking at any of them but smiling on all, as if graciously allowing each the privilege of admiring her beautiful figure and shapely shoulders, back, and bosom- which in the fashion of those days were very much exposed- and she seemed to bring the glamour of a ballroom with her as she moved toward Anna Pavlovna.

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With one accord the headmen answered: "Indeed you did well, Slaughterer," for the glamour of Nada was upon them and they would cherish her as others had cherished her.

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He had a gift for throwing a romantic glamour over everything that happened to him.

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Besides, there was no glamour about them, no haze of romance, no promise of adventure.

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The glamour of a host of new sensations was upon him.

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You take Kurtz away quick--quick--I tell you.' The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolation of his futile wander- ings.

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She felt somewhat like a woman who in a moment of passion is betrayed into an act of infidelity, and realizes the significance of the act without being wholly awakened from its glamour. The thought was passing vaguely through her mind, "What would he think?"

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Any glamour which may have attached to cadet life in Poe's eyes was speedily lost, for discipline at West Point was never so severe nor were the accommodations ever so poor.

Noun	1.	glamour - alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) glamor beauty - the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
Verb	1.	glamour - cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something hex, jinx, witch, bewitch, enchant voodoo - bewitch by or as if by a voodoo spell - place under a spell becharm, charm - control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft