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Definition: Glamourous |
GlamourousAdjective1. Having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: GlamourousSynonym: glamorous (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Glamourous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glamourous" is used about 10 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) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "glamourous": less-glamourous. | |
| 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 |
glamourous | 18 |
glamourous ralph lauren | 5 |
glamourous woman | 5 |
glamourous girl | 3 |
glamourous picture woman | 3 |
glamourous perfume | 3 |
glamourous model | 3 |
glamourous hair style | 2 |
daylight glamourous lauren ralph | 2 |
glamourous photography | 2 |
glamourous granny | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glamourous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | magjepsës (bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, glamor, glamorous, glamour, magic, magical, ravishing, witching), joshës (alluring, attractive, captivating, charming, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, 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, glamorous, 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, glamorous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, stunning, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), باهر (admirable, dazzling, flaring, glamorous, mesmeric, out of this world, smashing, splendid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сексапилен (glamorous, hot, sexed, sexy), чаровен (enchanting, glamorous, witching), очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, stunning, sweet, winning, winsome), обаятелен (charming, fascinating, glamorous, winsome), ефектен (effective, glamorous, showy, spectacular, swanky), бляскав (brilliant, effulgent, glamorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | prestižní (glamorous, prestigious), oslòující (glamorous, glaring, stunning), okouzlující (adorable, alluring, arresting, beguiling, bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, graceful, prepossessing, ravishing), okázalý (ceremonious, flamboyant, florid, fustian, glamorous, opulent, ostentatious, pompous, spectacular, stately), fascinující (compulsive, enthralling, exhilarating, fascinating, glamorous, inspiring, intriguing, mesmeric, witching), elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamorous, graceful, light-some, natty, neat, sleek, smart, snappy, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell, trim). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prestigieus (glamorous, prestigious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | prestiĝa (prestigious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | glanzvoll (brilliant, glamorous, glittering, illustrious, sparkling), glamourös (glamorous), traumhaft schön (a perfect dream, glamorous), flott (afloat, brisk, briskly, dashing, glamorous, jauntily, lively, nifty, nippy, perky, punchy, quick, racy, saucy, slippy, smart, smartly, snazzily, snazzy, speedy, sporty, Spruce, sprucely, swift, swiftly, vigorous, zippy), bezaubernd (adorable, bewitching, bewitchingly, charming, enchanting, entrancing, entrancingly, fascinating, fascinatingly, fetching, fetchingly, glamorous), betörend (beguiling, beguilingly, glamorous, infatuating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαγηνευτικόσ (glamorous), γεμάτοσ αίγλη (glamorous), γοητευτικόσ (charming, delightful, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, ravishing), λάμπων αιγληείσ (glamorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elbûvölõ (captivating, charming, delightful, enchanting, entrancing, fascinating, glamorous, witching), elbájoló (bewitching, captivating, catchy, charmer, engaging, fetching, glamorous, winsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | attraente (attractive, catching, catchy, charming, cute, engaging, enticing, fetching, glamorous, inviting, killing, likable, likeable, lovely, sexy, taking, winsome), affascinante (bewitching, charming, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, glamorous, intriguing, lovely, prepossessing, ravishing, taking, winning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | fortryllende. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | amourousglay prestigioso (prestigious, presto), louvar (acclaim, applaud, belaud, celebrate, clap, commend, extoll, extort, glamorize, glamorous, Laud, magnifying glass, praise, recommend), fascinante (absorbing, charming, enchanting, fascinating, glamorous, lovely, witching), deslumbrante (flaring, glamorous, glaring, gorgeous). (various references) plin de farmec (glamorous), fascinat (glamorous), încântãtor (alluring, charming, delightful, entrancing, glamorous, rapturous, ravishing). (various references) обаятельный (charming, engaging, glamorous, ravishing, winsome). (various references) čaroban (glamor, glamorous, glamour, magic, magical, witching). (various references) glamouroso (glamorous), hechicero (charming, glamorous, medicine man, sorcerer, witchdoctor), encantador (charming, delightful, disarming, enchanter, enchanting, enchantingly, entrancing, glamorous, 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, glamorous, glamour, 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 (glamorous), glamorös (glamorous), förtollande (glamorous). (various references) чарівний (admirable, adorable, alluring, amiable, appealing, basilisk, captivating, charming, compelling, darling, delicious, delightful, elfish, elvish, enchanted, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, fairy, fascinating, glamorous, goluptious, ingratiating, lovely, magic, magical, orphean, pretty), ефектний (chic, dramatic, effective, glamorous, showy, spectacular, telling). (various references) đẹp say đắm (glamorous), đẹp quyến r (glamorous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-m-o-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: glamorous. | |
-2 letters: glamours, orgulous, ramulous. | |
-3 letters: amorous, glamors, glamour, goorals, grumous, morulas, ormolus, osmolar, rugolas. | |
-4 letters: algors, algums, almugs, amours, argols, augurs, aurous, aurums, glamor, gloams, glomus, glooms, gooral, gorals, grooms, largos, larums, moguls, molars, moolas, morals, morula, murals, orgasm, ormolu, ramous, rugola, rugosa, rugous. | |
-5 letters: algor, algum, almug, alums, amour, argol, argus, arums, augur. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-m-o-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: unglamorous. | |
+3 letters: granulomatous. | |
+4 letters: ultraglamorous. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 6C 61 6D 6F 75 72 6F 75 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101100 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G l a m o u r o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 006C 0061 006D 006F 0075 0072 006F 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41786779818784818785 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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