different between lustre vs glow

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?st?/

Etymology 1

From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).

Noun

lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.)
2. (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.

3. A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons
4. (dated) A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres

Antonyms

• dullness
• lacklustre

Derived terms

• lustreware

Related terms

• lustrous

Translations

Verb

lustre (third-person singular simple present lustres, present participle lustring, simple past and past participle lustred)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin lustrum. See luster (etymology 2)

Noun

lustre (plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (a lustrum)

Translations

Anagrams

• Ulster, lurest, luster, luters, result, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin lustrum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?lus.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?lus.t?e/

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustrum (period of five years)

Related terms

• llustre

Further reading

• “lustre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyst?/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin l?strum.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustrum; period of five years
2. (figuratively) a very long time

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre, chandelier
2. gloss, shine, lustre

Related terms

• lustrage
• lustrer
• lustrine

Descendants

• Russian: ??????? f (ljústra)

Further reading

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

Italian

Adjective

lustre f pl

1. feminine plural of lustro

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre; shine

Portuguese

Etymology

From French lustre.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?lu?.t??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?lus.t?i/, /?lu?.t?i/
• Hyphenation: lus?tre

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. chandelier

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lust?e/, [?lus.t??e]

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

1. lustre, shine

Verb

lustre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lustrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of lustrar.

Further reading

• “lustre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English glowen, from Old English gl?wan, from Proto-Germanic *gl?an?, from Proto-Indo-European *??el-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gloie, glöie, gluuje, West Frisian gloeie, Dutch gloeien, German glühen, Danish and Norwegian glo, Icelandic glóa. See also glass.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

glow (third-person singular simple present glows, present participle glowing, simple past glowed or (nonstandard) glew, past participle glowed or (nonstandard) glown)

1. To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated.

2. To radiate some emotional quality like light.
3. To gaze especially passionately at something.
4. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.

5. To shine brightly and steadily.
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
7. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.

   • Did not his temples glow / In the same sultry winds and scorching heats?

   • 1727, John Gay, Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan

     The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands.

Derived terms

• glew
• outglow

Related terms

• gleed

Translations

Noun

glow (countable and uncountable, plural glows)

1. The state of a glowing object.
2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).

   He had a bright red glow on his face.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gowl, w.l.o.g., wlog

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English gl?wian.

Verb

glow

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to play music, have fun”).

Etymology 2

From Old French gluer.

Verb

glow

2. Alternative form of glewen (“to glue”).