glamour

CEFRC1

/ˈɡlæmə/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An attractive quality that makes someone or something seem special.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).

Examples

  • Being a movie star, she was used to a life of glitz and glamour.

  • Do you think I can handle all that glamour?

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.

  2. 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.

  3. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.

More examples

In context

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

  • glamour magazines; a glamour model

  • “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.”

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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 eye...