different between enchantment vs allure

English

Alternative forms

• inchantment

Etymology

From Middle English enchauntement, from Old French enchantement.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t???ntm?nt/, /?n?t???ntm?nt/, /?n?t???ntm?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?æntm?nt/, /?n?t?æntm?nt/, /?n?t?æntm?nt/

Noun

enchantment (countable and uncountable, plural enchantments)

1. The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
2. Something that enchants; a magical spell.

Related terms

• enchant

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??l(j)??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)

1. The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
2. (dated) gait; bearing.
   • Harper's Magazine

     The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.

3. The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

Translations

Verb

allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)

1. (transitive) To entice; to attract.

Synonyms

• attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce

Translations

Related terms

• lure

Anagrams

• Laurel, laurel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French allure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ly?.r?/
• Hyphenation: al?lu?re
• Rhymes: -y?r?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. air, pretension

Derived terms

• sterallure

French

Etymology

aller +? -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly?/
• Rhymes: -y?

Noun

allure f (plural allures)

1. appearance, look
2. speed, pace
3. angle of a boat from the wind
4. gait (of a horse)
5. chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)

Derived terms

• à toute allure

Descendants

• ? Dutch: allure

Further reading

• “allure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• la leur