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Definition: Glamorous |
GlamorousAdjective1. Having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glamorous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonym: GlamorousSynonym: glamourous (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Glamorous |
| English words defined with "glamorous": glamorize, glamourise. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "glamorous": Bling Blingin'. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | How glamorous. (My Best Friend's Wedding; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Shy may not be glamorous or entertaining. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Glamorous Hollywood (1958) | |
Song Titles | The Glamorous Life (performing artist: Sheila E.) | |
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 | Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machi.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Seventy-one years, or, My life with photography. Queen Anne's lace, one of our glamorous weeds.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lynda Carter | Right. And they think it has to be glamorous or it has to be the heroine or it has to be the lead. I just like to work. And I don't want to take projects that take me away from my family too much. |
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| "Glamorous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.61% of the time. "Glamorous" is used about 574 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.61% | 566 | 11,110 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 0.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 574 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "glamorous": glamorous-looking, glamorous-seeming. | |
Ending with "glamorous": none-too-glamorous, once-glamorous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
glamorous | 24 | glamorous lingerie | 4 |
glamorous woman | 17 | evening glamorous gown | 4 |
the glamorous life | 12 | glamorous gown | 4 |
glamorous model | 8 | glamorous hair | 3 |
glamorous hair style | 7 | dress glamorous | 3 |
glamorous nude | 6 | doll glamorous movie paper star thirties | 3 |
glamorous leg | 6 | glamorous make up | 3 |
girl glamorous | 5 | glamorous older woman | 3 |
glamorous perfume | 5 | glamorous glennis | 3 |
glamorous ralph lauren | 5 | e glamorous life lyrics sheila | 2 |
glamorous life lyrics | 5 | glamorous smoking | 2 |
chick glamorous | 4 | glamorous lady | 2 |
bad glamorous gone model | 4 | 1950s doll glamorous movie paper star | 2 |
babe glamorous | 4 | ||
1950s doll glamorous movie paper star | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "glamorous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | magjepsës (bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamor, glamour, glamourous, magic, magical, ravishing, witching), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamourous, luscious, seducer, seductive, sexy, tempter, tempting, winning, winsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, stunning, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), ساحر (attractive, bewitched, captivating, charming, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), باهر (admirable, dazzling, flaring, glamourous, mesmeric, out of this world, smashing, splendid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сексапилен (glamourous, hot, sexed, sexy), чаровен (enchanting, glamourous, witching), очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamourous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), обаятелен (charming, fascinating, glamourous, winsome), ефектен (effective, glamourous, showy, spectacular, swanky), бляскав (brilliant, effulgent, glamourous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 艷 , " , 迷人 (ducky, Enchantingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prestižní (glamourous, prestigious), oslòující (glamourous, glaring, stunning), okouzlující (adorable, alluring, arresting, beguiling, bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamourous, graceful, prepossessing, ravishing), okázalý (ceremonious, flamboyant, florid, fustian, glamourous, opulent, ostentatious, pompous, spectacular, stately), fascinující (compulsive, enthralling, exhilarating, fascinating, glamourous, inspiring, intriguing, mesmeric, witching), elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamourous, graceful, light-some, natty, neat, sleek, smart, snappy, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell, trim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prestigieus (glamourous, prestigious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فریبنده (Attractive, Captious, Deceptive, Sophisticate, Tempter, Witch), مسحورکننده (Spellbinder), طلسم امیز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tenhoava. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | glamoureux, séduisant, charmant, brillant (glaze, gleam, glistening, gloss, glossiness, glossy, glow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zauberhaft (enchanting, magic, magical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαγηνευτικόσ (glamourous), γεμάτοσ αίγλη (glamourous), γοητευτικόσ (charming, delightful, fascinating, fetching, glamourous, ravishing), λάμπων αιγληείσ (glamourous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקסים ומפואר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elbûvölõ (captivating, charming, delightful, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating, glamourous, witching), elbájoló (bewitching, captivating, catchy, charmer, engaging, fetching, glamourous, winsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | sangat mempesona. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamourous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, sexy, taking, winsome), affascinante (bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, glamourous, intriguing, lovely, prepossessing, ravishing, taking, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | グラフ理論 (glamour, glamour girl, glamour stock, glove, gram, grammar, gramme, Grammy, graph theory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | グラマラス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | drualtagh (captivating, fascinating, illusionist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amorousglay louvar (acclaim, applaud, belaud, celebrate, clap, commend, extoll, extort, glamorize, glamourous, Laud, magnifying glass, praise, recommend), fascinante (absorbing, charming, enchanting, fascinating, glamourous, lovely, witching), deslumbrante (flaring, glamourous, glaring, gorgeous). (various references) plin de farmec (glamourous), fascinat (glamourous), încântãtor (alluring, charming, delightful, entrancing, glamourous, rapturous, ravishing). (various references) эффектный (effective, glamor, glamour, glamourous, showy, spectacular, viewy), чарующий (entrancing, glamourous, Orphean), обаятельный (charming, engaging, glamourous, ravishing, winsome). (various references) čaroban (glamor, glamour, glamourous, magic, magical, witching). (various references) glamouroso (glamourous), hechicero (charming, glamourous, medicine man, sorcerer, witchdoctor), encantador (charming, delightful, disarming, enchanter, enchanting, enchantingly, entrancing, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magician, ravishing, taking, winning), atractivo (affinity, allure, allurement, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome). (various references) glamourös (glamourous), glamorös (glamourous), förtollande (glamourous). (various references) น่า"ู. (various references) göz kamaştırıcı (blinding, dazzling, doggy, flaring, glaring, gorgeous, harsh, incandescent, resplendent), göz alıcı (attractive, eye-catching, flamboyant, glittering, grandiose, jazzy, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, screaming, spectacular, splendiferous, staring, striking), büyüleyici (bewitching, captivating, challenging, charming, dazzling, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, ravishing, witching, wizard). (various references) чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamourous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty), ефектний (chic, dramatic, effective, glamourous, showy, spectacular, telling). (various references) đẹp say đắm (glamourous), đẹp quyến r (glamourous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glamorous": glamorously, glamorousness, glamorousnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "glamorous": nonglamorous, ultraglamorous, unglamorous. (additional references) | |
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"Glamorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gammurus, glamerous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glamorous" (pronounced gla"merus) |
| 7 | g l a" m er u s | unglamorous. |
| 5 | -a" m er u s | amorous, tetramerous. |
| 4 | -m er u s | humerus, humorous, numerous, timorous. |
| 3 | -er u s | adulterous, adventurous, avarice, barbarous, boisterous, cancerous, cantankerous, carboniferous, carnivorous, coniferous, dangerous, decorous, fossiliferous, generous, herbivorous, heterosporous, homosporous, insectivorous, lecherous, murderous, odorous, omnivorous, onerous, overgenerous, oviparous, ovoviviparous, phosphorous, phosphorus, ponderous, precancerous, preposterous, prosperous, rancorous, rapturous, rhinoceros, rigorous, slanderous, sonorous, thunderous, traitorous, treacherous, uterus, vigorous, viviparous, vociferous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-m-o-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: glamours. | |
-2 letters: amorous, glamors, glamour, goorals, morulas, ormolus, osmolar, rugolas. | |
-3 letters: algors, algums, almugs, amours, argols, glamor, gloams, glomus, glooms, gooral, gorals, grooms, largos, larums, moguls, molars, moolas, morals, morula, murals, orgasm, ormolu, ramous, rugola, rugosa. | |
-4 letters: algor, algum, almug, alums, amour, argol, argus, arums, gaols, gaums, gaurs, gloam, gloms, gloom, goals, goral, grams. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-m-o-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: glamourous. | |
+2 letters: glamorously, unglamorous. | |
+3 letters: chaulmoogras, nonglamorous, promulgators. | |
+4 letters: glamorousness, granulomatous, promulgations. | |
+5 letters: macroglobulins, osmoregulation, osmoregulatory, rheumatologies, rheumatologist, ultraglamorous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 6C 61 6D 6F 72 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101100 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G l a m o r o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 006C 0061 006D 006F 0072 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417867798184818785 |
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