Căutare în Webster - Dicționarul explicativ al limbii engleze

Pentru căutare rapidă introduceți minim 3 litere.

 

GLAMOUR - Definiția din dicționar

Traducere: română


Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.

Gla"mour (?), n. [Scot. glamour, glamer; cf. Icel. glámeggdr one who is troubled with the glaucoma (?); or Icel. gl&ā;m-s&ymacr_;ni weakness of sight, glamour; gl&ā;mr name of the moon, also of a ghost + s&ymacr_;ni sight, akin to E. see. Perh., however, a corruption of E. gramarye.]
[1913 Webster]

1. A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
[1913 Webster]

2. Witchcraft; magic; a spell. Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]

3. A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
[1913 Webster]

The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black.
[1913 Webster]

4. Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.
[1913 Webster]

Glamour gift, Glamour might, the gift or power of producing a glamour. The former is used figuratively, of the gift of fascination peculiar to women.
[1913 Webster]

It had much of glamour might
To make a lady seem a knight.
Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]