glamour
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Scots glamour (“magic”), alteration of Middle English gramere (“grammar”), from Old French gramaire. Doublet of glamoury, gramarye, grammar, and grimoire.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡlæmə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡlæmɚ/
- Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Noun edit
glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)
- (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.
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), The City of Dreadful Night:
- 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 attentive show.
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- glamour magazines; a glamour model
- (uncountable) 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.
- 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:
- “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.”
- 1950 May 7, The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, page 13, column 3:
- Boys have not lost their love for adventure, and still have `itchy feet.' Many are seeking glamor jobs, want to be writers, detectives, seamen.
- 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.[1]
- Thomas Meehan, editor (October 1861), “The Nelumbium Luteum, or Yellow Egyptian Lotus.”, in The Gardner’s Monthly and Advertiser Horticultural, volume III, issue 10, 23 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, page 311:
- 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 are the talismans.
- Thomas Meehan, editor (October 1861), “The Nelumbium Luteum, or Yellow Egyptian Lotus.”, in The Gardner’s Monthly and Advertiser Horticultural, volume III, issue 10, 23 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, page 311:
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
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Verb edit
glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)
- (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
References edit
- ^ Postrel, Virginia (en), “One: The Magic of Glamour”, in The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN: “Reflecting this sense of the word, by 1902 Webster's included two new definitions: “a kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are”…”
- “Glámr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
Danish edit
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glamour c (singular definite glamouren, not used in plural form)
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Finnish edit
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glamour
- glamour (charm)
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Inflection of glamour (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | glamour | glamourit | ||
genitive | glamourin | glamourien | ||
partitive | glamouria | glamoureja | ||
illative | glamouriin | glamoureihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | glamour | glamourit | ||
accusative | nom. | glamour | glamourit | |
gen. | glamourin | |||
genitive | glamourin | glamourien | ||
partitive | glamouria | glamoureja | ||
inessive | glamourissa | glamoureissa | ||
elative | glamourista | glamoureista | ||
illative | glamouriin | glamoureihin | ||
adessive | glamourilla | glamoureilla | ||
ablative | glamourilta | glamoureilta | ||
allative | glamourille | glamoureille | ||
essive | glamourina | glamoureina | ||
translative | glamouriksi | glamoureiksi | ||
abessive | glamouritta | glamoureitta | ||
instructive | — | glamourein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “glamour”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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glamour m (uncountable)
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glamour (invariable)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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glamour m (definite singular glamouren)
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- “glamour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
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glamour m (definite singular glamouren)
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- “glamour” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English glamour.
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glamour m (uncountable)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English glamour.
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glamour m (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of glamur
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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “glamour”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
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glamour c (definite singular glamouren) (uncountable)