noun
glamour
GLA-muh
noun
1
Alluring beauty, charm, or style, often tied to wealth, fame, or fashion.
"The awards ceremony was full of Hollywood glamour."
"She missed the glamour of her modeling days."
2
(older/literary) A magical spell that makes things appear more attractive than they really are.
"The witch cast a glamour to disguise the crumbling castle as a palace."
How to Use Glamour
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAttractive, exciting charm — often linked to fashion and celebrity, but originally meant a magic illusion.
Common pairings
Hollywood glamour
add glamour to
faded glamour
Word Forms
glamoured past tense, glamours plural, glamours singular
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Etymology
From Scots glamour ("magic"), an alteration of Middle English gramere, the ancestor of "grammar" — magic and learning were once closely linked in folk belief.