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Allure

Definitions: Allure

Allure

Noun

1. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.

Verb

1. Entice to do.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "allure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Allure

Synonyms: allurement (n), temptingness (n), tempt (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Allure

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Desire

Cause desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke desire; whet the appetite; appetize, titillate, allure, attract, take one's fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement; tantalize, make one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la bouche.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Pain

Attract, allure; (move); stimulate; (excite); interest.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Allure

English words defined with "allure": Allect, Alluded, allurementCall birdglamorous, glamourousInescate, InsnareTole, Tull. (references)
Specialty definitions using "allure": Armi daHoodZacocia. (references)
Etymologies containing "allure": Allicient, AmadouIllecebrous. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Allure" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (airs), Dutch (airs), French (appearance, aspect, bat, bearing, gait, galloper, going, look, pace, pizzazz, rate, sight, sit, smartness, speed, style, view, walk).

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Modern Usage: Allure

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Grande allure (1986)

À toute allure (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Allure

DomainTitle

Books

  • Allure (reference)

  • Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design) (reference)

  • Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal (reference)

  • Painting the Allure of Nature (reference)

  • Personal Renewal: Your Guide to Vitality, Allure, and a Joyful Life Using Healing Herbs, Diet, Movement, and Visualizations (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Allure of Rock-Revisited (reference)

  • In Search of Angels: The Meaning Myth & Allure of Angels (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Allure

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Likewise, ski resorts in the U.S. also allure many Argentine skiers from December to March (Argentine summer holiday season). (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

The financing package - of great allure to banks with a presence in Bahrain - remains to be arranged. (references)

Nigeria

Oil dependency, and the allure it generated of great wealth through government contracts, spawned other distortions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Allure

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989With all the temptations young people face it sometimes seems the allure of the permissive society requires superhuman feats of self-control.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Allure

"Allure" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Allure" is used about 64 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)93.75%6043,597
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4.69%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)1.56%1339,140
                    Total100.00%64N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allure

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
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per Day

  allure

710

  allure bridals

16

  allure mayan riviera

254

  allure massage

15

  allure magazine

246

  allure mayan review riviera

14

  allure amateur

187

  alyssa allure

14

  panasonic allure

96

  allure cried

13

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93

  allure mayan rivera

12

  allure cried lyrics

44

  allure cafe

12

  allure resort

35

  allure amateur claudia

11

  allure mayan

32

  allure model

10

  allure lyrics

29

  allure hotel mayan riviera

10

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25

  allure salon

10

  chanel allure

25

  allure hotel

10

  allure maya riviera

24

  allure creation home

10

  allure perfume

23

  allure escort

10

  allure bridal

22

  allure mayan resort

10

  allure clinique.com

19

  allure furniture

9

  allure mayan resort riviera

18

  allure tulum

8

  allure day spa

17

  allure dashing

8

  allure leather

16

  allure spa

8

  panasonic allure ringtone

16

  panasonic allure eb tx310

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Allure

Language Translations for "allure"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tërheq (appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), ngashënjej (attract, seduce), joshë (appeal, bewitchment, charm, glamor, glamour, lure, pull, smell), bëj për vete (absorb, capture, conciliate, ingratiate, magnetize, prepossess). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جذب (attract, attraction, catch, charm, engage, entice, hale, haul, magnetize, press, pull, rivet, strain, tempt). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съблазнявам (entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt, vamp), чар (allurement, attraction, bewitchment, charm, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness, lure, magic, magnetism, spell, wizardry), блазня, привлекателност (appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, congeniality, desirability, glamor, glamour, pizzazz, prettiness, relish, seduction, sightliness, solicitation), привличам (align, appeal, attach, attract, draw on, entice, fetch, inveigle, invite, pull, seduce, whip up), примамливост, подмамвам (bait, cajole, carny, decoy, entice, juggle, lure on). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

魅力 (Charm, CHARM++). (various references)

   

Czech

  

svést (conduct, debauch, misguide, pervert, seduce), lákat (beckon, draw, entice, lure, tempt, woo). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تطمیع کردن (Bribe, Buy), شیفتن (Captivate, Charm, Mash), بطمع انداختن (Wile). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vietellä (entice, seduce, tempt), houkutella (attract, coax, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, persuade, tempt). (various references)

   

French

  

attrait, attirer, séduire. (various references)

   

German

  

anziehen (adjust, apply, attract, be popular, bolt, boom, clothe, draw, draw up, dress, gain, get on, hardness, jerk, make the first move, pull, pull in, pull tight, put on, rise, screw, screw down, screw up, set out, setting, shove on, start moving, start pulling, take, tighten, to attract, to close contacts, to dress, to pick up, to tog, tug, wear), verlockung (bait, enticement, lure, temptation), locken (attract, cluck, curl, curls, decoy, entice, lure, tempt, to attract, to cluck, to entice, tresses, woo), duft (aroma, aura, flavour, fragrance, haze, incense, odor, odour, perfume, redolence, scent, smell, whiff). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δελεάζω (bait, blarney, cajole, captivate, decoy, ensnare, entice, lure, seduce, tempt). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ"וח (enticement, fascination, reporting, seduction), קסם (charm, divination, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, magic, spell, witchcraft). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kecsegtet (hold out, to entice, to flatter), egyéni vonzerő, egyéni vonzóerõ, egyéni varázs (personal magnetism), egyéni báj, csábít (attract, coax, draw, entice, lure, tempt, to allure, to beguile, to entice, to gouge, to lure, to solicit, to wile, wile). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pemikat (captivator, enchanter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

attrarre (appeal, attract, captivate, catch, draw, to pick up), attirare (attract, catch, draw, engage, pull, pull in, rivet, take), allettare (attract, cajole, charm, entice, lure, tempt, wheedle), affascinare (bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue, lead away, spellbind, take), lusingare (adulate, bait, cajoler, cajoling, flatter). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cleaynaghey (addict, corrupt, decoy, entice, gravitate, induce, inveigle, lure, seduce), breigey (beguile, blandish, cajole, cajolery, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, persuade, seduce, seduction, wheedle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allureay

   

Portuguese

  

atrair (appeal, attract, bait, charm, court, decoy, drain away, draw, drew, enlist, entice, fascinate, inveigle, invite, lure, magnetize, rope, to attract, trepan), tentar (attempt, endeavour, endemic, entice, exert, experiment, lurid, play act, pretend, seek, tempt, try), seduzir (attract, bait, beguile, betray, debauch, decoy, drain-ditch, drive, enchanter, entice, enticement, enticing, gullet, inveigle, lure, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp, wile), fascinação (attraction, charm, dazzle, fascination, glamor, glamour, spell, witchcraft), encantar (appeal, becharm, bewitch, charm, conjure, delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinated, fetch, flatter, glamor, glamour, lure, rapture). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

atrage (appeal, attract, bespeak, call, captivate, commend, conciliate, court, decoy, draw, draw in, enamor, enamour, engage, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, magnetize, win), ademeni (bait, corrupt, dangle, decoy, delude, ensnare, entice, fascinate, inveigle, lead up the garden, lure, seduce, tempt), vrãji (bedevil, bewitch, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, charm, enchant, enrapture, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, lure, spell, spellbind), seduce (entice, fascinate, lead away, seduce, tempt), momi (bait, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, tempt), ispiti (appeal, attract, bait, carry away, decoy, entice, examine, inveigle, invite, lure, tax, tempt, torture, try), fermeca (bedevil, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

очарование (bewitchment, charm, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness), заманивать (allured, bait a trap, ensnare, inveigle, trap, wile), привлекать (attract, drum up, enlist, magnetize). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

t laidh (entice, hush to rest, soothe). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mamiti (entice, lead on, lure), mamac (bait, decoy, gentle, lure, spoon bait, stalking horse, troll). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

atraer (appeal, appeal to, arrest, attire, attract, beat up, beckon, bring in, draw, draw in, engage, entice, fetch, inveigle, invoke, lure, pull, pull in, tempt), atractivo (affinity, allurement, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome), apartar (abduce, alienate, avert, deviate, distract, divert, divide, draw aside, draw away, draw off, fob, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away), seducir (attract, beguile, debauch, draw, entice, inveigle, lead on, lure, seduce, tempt), fascinar (bewitch, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

locka (appeal to, bait, beguile, call, curl, entice, entire, inveigle, lead on, lure, tantalise, tantalize, tempt, wheedle, woo). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ayartmak (beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), albeni (allurement, attractiveness, blandishments, charm, sales appeal), aklını başından almak (enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, infatuate, sweep smb. off his feet), aklını çelmek (beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, suborn, sway), cazip şey (allurement, honeypot), cazibe (allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, oomph, romance, seduction, witchery), baştan çıkarmak (corrupt, debauch, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, pervert, seduce, tempt, wile), büyülemek (bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), büyüleme (allurement, captivation, casting a spell, enchantment, enthrallment, enthralment, spell), çekme (allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

спокуса (allurement, bait, enticement, honeypot, lure, seducement, seduction, temptation), спокушати (attempt, beguile, court, debauch, decoy, deprave, entice, inveigle, lure, offend, seduce), зваблювати (debauch, decoy, wile), зачаровувати (beguile, bewitch, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, philter, philtre, spell), заманювати (bait, entice, rope, tempt, wile), здобувати (acquire, attain, gain, obtain), притягати. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sức quyến rũ (alluringness, lurchingly, magnetism, spell, witchery), sức lôi cuốn (alluringness, draw, drawn, drew), sức cám dỗ (alluringness, lurchingly), duyên. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

llithio (entice, feed, seduce), hudo (attract, beguile, charm), denu (attract, entice). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Allure

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

delicias, illic, illicque, inliciant, inliciar, inlicitis, invitati, invitatis, invitatos, invitatus, invitaverat, invitavit, pertraho, prolecto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Allure

LanguageDateSourceHosea Chapter 2, Verse 14
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai afaniw ampelon authV kai taV sukaV authV osa eipen misqwmata mou tauta estin a edwkan moi oi erastai mou kai qhsomai auta eiV marturion kai katafagetai auta ta qhria tou agrou kai ta peteina tou ouranou kai ta erpeta thV ghV
Latin405VulgatePropter hoc ecce ego lactabo eam et ducam eam in solitudinem et loquar ad cor eius
Middle English1395WyclifFor this thing loo! Y shal yeue mylk to hir, and shal lede hir in to wildernesse, and Y shal speke to hir herte;
Jacobean English1611King JamesTherefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Victorian English1833WebsterTherefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably to her.
Basic English1964OgdenFor this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Allure

LanguageHosea Chapter 2, Verse 14
Cebuano¶ Busa, ania karon, siya hayloon ko, ug dad-on ko siya ngadto sa kamingawan, ug sultihan ko siya sa madanihon.
Chinese後 來 我 必 勸 導 他 、 他 到 野 、 對 他 說 安 慰 的 話 .
CroatianOpustošit æu joj èokote i smokve za koje je govorila: 'To je plaæa što mi je dadoše moji milosnici.' Obratit æu ih u šikarje, i životinje æe ih poljske obrstiti.
DanishSe, derfor vil jeg lokke og føre hende ud i Ørkenen og tale hende kærligt til.
FinnishSentähden, katso, minä taivuttelen hänet, kuljetan hänet erämaahan ja viihdyttelen häntä.
GermanDarum siehe, ich will sie locken und will sie in die Wüste führen und freundlich mit ihr reden.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariTUHAN berkata, "Sebab itu Aku akan membawa dia ke padang gurun; di sana ia akan Kubujuk dengan kata-kata cinta.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaDan Aku akan memberikan kepadanya segala kebun anggurnya dan lembah Akhorpun akan pintu pengharapan; pada masa itu iapun akan mengangkat pula nyanyian berganti-ganti seperti pada masa mudanya, seperti pada masa ia berangkat keluar dari negeri Mesir.
Maori¶ Mo reira, nana, ka whakawai ahau i a ia, ka kawe i a ia ki te koraha, ka korero whakamarie ano ki a ia.
NorwegianSe, derfor vil jeg lokke henne og føre henne ut i ørkenen og tale vennlig til henne,
PortuguesePortanto, eis que eu a atrairei, e a levarei para o deserto, e lhe falarei ao coração.   
Rumanian,,Deaceea iatq, o voi ademeni wi o voi duce kn pustie, wi -i voi vorbi pe placul inimii ei.
RussianрПУЕНХ ЧПФ, Й с ХЧМЕЛХ ЕЕ, ТЙЧЕ"Х ЕЕ Ч ХУФЩОА, Й 'Х"Х ЗПЧПТЙФШ Л УЕТ""Х ЕЕ.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Allure

Derivations

Words beginning with "allure": allured, allurement, allurements, allurer, allurers, allures. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Allure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alara, albur, alere, aleure, Alflora, alire, Allaire, allard, Allerce, Allfree, Allfrey, Allori, allr, allur, alluren, allureth, allvre, alore, aloure, alur, alurs, Ballarue, elure, eylure, Gallura, Iluro, lauler, mallaret, Mallarme, Uluru. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Allure"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "allure" (pronounced uluh"r)
3-l uh" rlure.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Allure

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laurel.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-l-r-u"

-1 letter: ureal.

-2 letters: earl, leal, lear, lure, rale, real, rule, urea.

-3 letters: ale, all, are, ear, eau, ell, era, lar, lea, leu, rue.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-l-r-u"
 

+1 letter: allured, allurer, allures, laurels, pleural, rubella, rulable.

 

+2 letters: allurers, awfuller, brucella, cellular, flexural, furlable, guerilla, laureled, medullar, neurally, nucellar, prunella, rubellas, squaller, tailleur, umbellar, umbrella, unreally.

 

+3 letters: acellular, aquarelle, barrelful, brucellae, brucellas, carefully, curveball, fearfully, guerillas, guerrilla, laureling, laurelled, medullary, molecular, neutrally, nucleolar, numerally, pluralize, prunellas, quadrille, regularly, scutellar, secularly, squallers, squallier, subcellar, surreally, tailleurs, tearfully, tellurian, ultraleft, umbrellas.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Allure


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6C 75 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    .-..    ..-    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#117 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 0075 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357878878471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Bible Trace
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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