ALLURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allure mean? 

• ALLURE (noun)
  The noun ALLURE has 1 sense:

1. the power to entice or attract through personal charm

  Familiarity information: ALLURE used as a noun is very rare.

• ALLURE (verb)
  The verb ALLURE has 1 sense:

1. dispose or incline or entice to

  Familiarity information: ALLURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALLURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The power to entice or attract through personal charm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

allure; allurement; temptingness

Hypernyms ("allure" is a kind of...):

attraction; attractiveness (the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allure"):

invitation (a tempting allurement)

Derivation:

allure (dispose or incline or entice to)

• ALLURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they allure    ... he / she / it allures   
Past simple: allured   
Past participle: allured   
-ing form: alluring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dispose or incline or entice to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

allure; tempt

Context example:

We were tempted by the delicious-looking food

Hypernyms (to "allure" is one way to...):

bid; invite (ask someone in a friendly way to do something)

"Allure" entails doing...:

appeal; attract (be attractive to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

allure (the power to entice or attract through personal charm)

allurement (the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money))

allurement (the power to entice or attract through personal charm)

 Context examples 

God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Venus will increase your charm and add to your allure.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There was nothing alluring in the pictures she drew, and he was aware of a dull pain of disappointment and of a sharper ache of love for her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was not, I must confess, a very alluring prospect.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The air of wicked grace: of triumph, in which, strange to say, there was yet something feminine and alluring: with which she reclined upon the seat between us, and looked at me, was worthy of a cruel Princess in a Legend.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I remember, one morning, when Glumdalclitch had set me in a box upon a window, as she usually did in fair days to give me air (for I durst not venture to let the box be hung on a nail out of the window, as we do with cages in England), after I had lifted up one of my sashes, and sat down at my table to eat a piece of sweet cake for my breakfast, above twenty wasps, allured by the smell, came flying into the room, humming louder than the drones of as many bagpipes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The touch of his hand on hers was vastly more potent than any word he could utter, the impact of his strength on her imagination was more alluring than the printed poems and spoken passions of a thousand generations of lovers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But as matters really stood, to watch Miss Ingram's efforts at fascinating Mr. Rochester, to witness their repeated failure—herself unconscious that they did fail; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self-complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure—to witness this, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)