Dictionary

glamorous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlɛ.mə.ɹəs/ (New-Zealand)
• /ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English glamor Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.? Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos? Old Latin -ōssus Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English glamorous From glamor + -ous.

Meanings

1. Having glamour; stylish, attractive.
   • I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke. 2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian:
2. Appealing, enticing.
   • Thus it was not only in the doctrinal field that revisionism called into question the traditional belief in the revolutionary mission of the proletariat: the belief was challenged, perhaps more effectively still, by the success of revisionism as a social phenomenon, which robbed socialism of the glamorous prospect of a 'final battle' for universal liberation. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 114:
3. (archaic) Being associated with one or more glamours.

Forms

Deriveds

unglamorous · glamazon · ultraglamorous · glamper · superglamorous · glamorousness · glamping · nonglamorous · glamorously · glampsite · glamp

Descendants

glamoureus · glamorös · glamourös · glamorøs · glamurós

Translations (30)

de bezaubernd (Having glamour; stylish) · es glamuroso (Having glamour; stylish) · fi hohdokas (Having glamour; stylish) · tl kahali-halina (Having glamour; stylish) · fr charmant (Having glamour; stylish) · bg възхитителен (Having glamour; stylish) · tl kaakit-akit (Having glamour; stylish) · nl glamourachtig (Having glamour; stylish) · nn glamorøs (Having glamour; stylish) · fi tyylikäs (Having glamour; stylish) · fi loistokas (Having glamour; stylish) · tl mapanlayumot (Having glamour; stylish) · ca glamurós (Having glamour; stylish) · nb glamorøs (Having glamour; stylish) · de glamourös (Having glamour; stylish) · fr glamour (Having glamour; stylish) · bg очарователен (Having glamour; stylish) · ro fermecător (Having glamour; stylish) · tl mapanggayuma (Having glamour; stylish) · pt glamuroso (Having glamour; stylish) · nl glamoureus (Having glamour; stylish) · tl mapanghalina (Having glamour; stylish) · pt glamouroso (Having glamour; stylish) · ru очарова́тельный (Having glamour; stylish) · cmn 魅力十足的 (Having glamour; stylish) · sv glamorös (Having glamour; stylish) · pl elegancki (Having glamour; stylish) · ru обая́тельный (Having glamour; stylish) · es glamoroso (Having glamour; stylish) · ru чару́ющий (Having glamour; stylish)