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glamorous

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • Australia//ˈɡlæ.mə.ɹəs//
  • New Zealand//ˈɡlɛ.mə.ɹəs//

Having glamour; stylish, attractive.

adjective

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 3

    archaicBeing associated with one or more glamours.

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.

Forms

comparative
more glamorous
superlative
most glamorous
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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