GLAMOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glamour mean? 

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

1. alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)

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

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

1. cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLAMOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

glamor; glamour

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

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

Derivation:

glamour (cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something)

glamourise (make glamorous and attractive)

glamourous (having an air of allure, romance and excitement)

• GLAMOUR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

bewitch; enchant; glamour; hex; jinx; witch

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

becharm; charm (control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "glamour"):

voodoo (bewitch by or as if by a voodoo)

spell (place under a spell)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

glamour (alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal))

 Context examples 

Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then he chanced upon Kipling's poems, and was swept away by the lilt and swing and glamour with which familiar things had been invested.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Where is the glamour of romance?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The glamour and mystery of the place, with its sinister atmosphere of forgotten nations, appealed to the imagination of my friend, and he spent much of his time in long walks and solitary meditations upon the moor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that he is one who should be deeply distrusted.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes, he answered; and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The glamour of romance with which her imagination had invested him faded away in the cold light of fact that he was an ex-laundryman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

How I wish I could reproduce the glamour of his discourses, the peculiar mixture of accurate knowledge and of racy imagination which gave them their fascination, until even the Professor's cynical and sceptical smile would gradually vanish from his thin face as he listened.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To him they were frankly imaginative and fantastic, though invested with all the glamour of the real, wherein lay their power.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much—OUR land, as we shall ever fondly call it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)