Meaning of Glamour | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   uncountable
2. Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
   uncountable
3. Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
   uncountable
4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
   countable, uncountable
5. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
   countable, uncountable
6. An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
   countable
7. A beautiful woman.
   countable, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“glamour magazines; a glamour model”

“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.””

“Boys have not lost their love for adventure, and still have `itchy feet.' Many are seeking glamor jobs, want to be writers, detectives, seamen.”

“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.”

“One of the Qantas staff, a glamour, made her way over to us.”

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