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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun glamour has 1 sense

glamour(n = noun.attribute) glamor - alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal);

is a kind of beauty

Derived forms verb glamour₁, verb glamourise₂, adjective glamourous₁

Verb glamour has 1 sense

glamour(v = verb.communication) bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch - cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something;

is one way to becharm, charm

Derived form noun glamour₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

glamour, n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. glámeggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. glām-s weakness of sight, glamour; glāmr name of the moon, also of a ghost + s sight, akin to E. see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.].

A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are. [1913 Webster]

Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. [1913 Webster]
"The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley." [1913 Webster]

Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified. [1913 Webster]
"It had much of glamour might
To make a lady seem a knight." [1913 Webster]

Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

glamour, n. & v. (US glamor)
--n.
1 physical attractiveness, esp. when achieved by make-up etc.
2 alluring or exciting beauty or charm (the glamour of New York).
--v.tr.
1 poet. affect with glamour; bewitch; enchant.
2 colloq. make glamorous.

Idiom

cast a glamour over enchant. glamour girl (or boy) an attractive young woman (or man), esp. a model etc.

Derivative

glamorous adj. glamorously adv.

Etymology

18th c.: var. of GRAMMAR, with ref. to the occult practices associated with learning in the Middle Ages

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THESAURUS

glamour
agacerie, alchemy, allure, allurement, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, aura, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, blaze of glory, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, cajolery, cantrip, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, curse, delightfulness, divination, enchantment, enravishment, enthrallment, enticement, entrancement, entrapment, envelope, evil eye, exorcism, exquisiteness, fascination, fetishism, flirtation, forbidden fruit, gloriousness, glory, gorgeousness, grace, gramarye, halo, heavenliness, hex, hoodoo, illustriousness, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, invitingness, jinx, juju, jujuism, loveliness, luster, luxury, magic, magic spell, magnetism, malocchio, mystique, natural magic, necromancy, nimbus, numinousness, obeah, radiance, ravishingness, resplendence, resplendency, rune, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sensuousness, sex appeal, shamanism, snaring, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, splendidness, splendor, splendorousness, splendrousness, sublimity, sympathetic magic, tantalization, tantalizingness, temptation, temptingness, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, voluptuousness, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, weird, whammy, white magic, winning ways, winningness, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, wizardry, wooing

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