glamour

• glamor (US); however, the -our spelling is the preferred and most common spelling in the United States.

From Scots glamer, from earlier Scots gramarye (“magic, enchantment, spell”).

The Scottish term may either be from Ancient Greek γραμμάριον (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”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæmə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlæmɚ/

glamour (countable and uncountable, plural glamours)

1. (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance
2. Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
5. (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal)

   glamour magazines; a glamour model

glamour (third-person singular simple present glamours, present participle glamouring, simple past and past participle glamoured)

1. (transitive) To enchant; to bewitch.

• “Glámr” in: Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon — An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)

From English glamour.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlamuːr/, [ɡ̊laˈmuːɐ̯] or IPA^(key): /ɡlamɔr/, [ˈɡ̊lamɒ]

glamour c (singular definite glamouren, not used in plural form)

1. glamour

• glamourisere
• glamourøs

glamour

1. glamour (charm)

glamour m (uncountable)

1. glamour

glamour (invariable)

1. glamorous

From English glamour

glamour m (definite singular glamouren)

1. glamour

• glamorøs

• “glamour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English glamour

glamour m (definite singular glamouren)

1. glamour

• glamorøs

• “glamour” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From English glamour.

• IPA^(key): /ɡlaˈmuɾ/

glamour m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of glamur

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

glamour c (definite singular glamouren) (uncountable)

1. glamour