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glamour
English
Etymology
From Scots glamer, from earlier Scots gramarye (“magic, enchantment, spell”).
The Scottish term may either be from Ancient Greek ?????????? (grammárion, “gram”), the weight unit of ingredients used to make magic potions, or an alteration of the English word grammar (“any sort of scholarship, especially occult learning”).
A connection has also been suggested with Old Norse glámr (poet. “moon,” name of a ghost) and glámsýni (“glamour, illusion”, literally “glam-sight”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??læm?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??læm?/
Noun
glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)
- (uncountable) 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 seems beauteous.
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “The City of Dreadful Night”:
- 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.
- They often murmur to themselves, they speak
- 1882, James Thomson (B. V.), “The City of Dreadful Night”:
- (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal).
- glamour magazines; a glamour model
- (uncountable) Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing.
- The idea of being a movie star has lost its glamour for me.
- Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
- A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (countable) An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.
Alternative forms
- glamor (US); however, the -our spelling is the more common spelling, even in the US
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)
- (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.
References
- “Glámr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
Danish
Etymology
From English glamour.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lamu?r/, [??la?mu???] or IPA(key): /?lam?r/, [???lam?]
Noun
glamour c (singular definite glamouren, not used in plural form)
- glamour
Derived terms
- glamourisere
- glamourøs
Finnish
Noun
glamour
- glamour (charm)
Declension
French
Noun
glamour m (uncountable)
- glamour
Adjective
glamour (invariable)
- glamorous
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English glamour
Noun
glamour m (definite singular glamouren)
- glamour
Related terms
- glamorøs
References
- “glamour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English glamour
Noun
glamour m (definite singular glamouren)
- glamour
Related terms
- glamorøs
References
- “glamour” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
From English glamour.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?mu?/, [?la?mu?]
Noun
glamour m (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of glamur
Further reading
- “glamour” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Noun
glamour c (definite singular glamouren) (uncountable)
- glamour
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grandeur
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /???æn.d??/, /???æn.d???/, /???æn.d(j)??/, /???æn.d(j)?/
- Homophone: grander (one pronunciation)
Noun
grandeur (countable and uncountable, plural grandeurs)
- The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
- Nobility (state of being noble).
- (archaic, rare) Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “grandeur”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
French
Etymology
Old French grandur, from grand +? -eur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????.dœ?/
- Homophone: grandeurs
Noun
grandeur f (plural grandeurs)
- size
- (physics, mathematics) magnitude, quantity
- (astronomy) magnitude
- grandeur
Derived terms
- folie des grandeurs
- grandeur d'âme
- grandeur nature
- ordre de grandeur
See also
- taille
- largeur
- hauteur
Further reading
- “grandeur” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French grandur.
Noun
grandeur f (plural grandeurs)
- size
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