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lustre
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?st?/
Etymology 1
From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).
Noun
lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.)
- (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.
- A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons
- (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)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of luster
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin lustrum. See luster (etymology 2)
Noun
lustre (plural lustres)
- (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)
- 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)
- lustrum; period of five years
- (figuratively) a very long time
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Italian lustro.
Noun
lustre m (plural lustres)
- lustre, chandelier
- 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
- feminine plural of lustro
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian lustro.
Noun
lustre m (plural lustres)
- 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)
- chandelier
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?lust?e/, [?lus.t??e]
Noun
lustre m (plural lustres)
- lustre, shine
Verb
lustre
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lustrar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
- 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.
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strength
English
Etymology
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong +? -th. Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /st???k?/, [st??????k?], [st?????n??]
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): [st??????k?]
- Rhymes: -???, -?n?
Noun
strength (countable and uncountable, plural strengths)
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[1]
- Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
- Antonym: weakness
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[1]
- The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 46.1,[2]
- God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Examplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution, London: Francis Ash, Part 1, Section 4, Discourse 2, p. 66,[3]
- […] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […] .
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 46.1,[2]
- A positive attribute.
- Antonym: weakness
- (obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- Thou princely leader of our English strength,
- Never so needful on the earth of France,
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, Scene 1,[5]
- That done, dissever your united strengths,
- And part your mingled colours once again;
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7, lines 140-143,[6]
- All like himself rebellious, by whose aid
- This inaccessible high strength, the seat
- Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
- He trusted to have seis’d […]
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
strength (third-person singular simple present strengths, present participle strengthing, simple past and past participle strengthed)
- (obsolete) To strengthen (all senses). [12th-17th c.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:strengthen
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