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Definition: Glower |
GlowerNoun1. An angry stare. Verb1. Look at with a fixed gaze: "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her". 2. Wrinkle one's forehead in a sign of disapproval. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "glower" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Note: Glower \Glow"er\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Glowered; present participle verb or noun Glowering.]. (references) |
Synonyms: GlowerSynonyms: frown (v), glare (v), lower (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Lose one's temper; (resentment); sulk; la; frown, scowl, glower, pout; snap, snarl, growl. |
Sullenness | Verb: be sullen; Adjective: sulk; frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Glower |
| English words defined with "glower": Glore, Glowered. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "glower": Gloar. (references) |
| "Glower" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "Glower" is used about 22 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 45.45% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.45% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "glower": glower at ♦ glower at smb.. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
glower | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "glower"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shoh me inat (glare at), shikim i rreptë, pe nxehjeje. (various references) | |
Arabic | حملق بسخط, حدق بإنشداه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гледам намръщено, нажежаема жичка, мръщя се (frown, knit one's brows, knit the brows, lower, pucker, scowl, sulk), заплашителен поглед. (various references) | |
Czech | mraèit se (frown, lour, scowl). (various references) | |
Farsi | نگاه خیره (Gaze), تروشروءی (Austerity), خیره نگاه کردن (Gape, Gaze, Glare, Gloat, Stare), اخم کردن (Lower, Pout, Scowl), اخم (Scowl, Sulk). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuijottaa (gaze, glare, stare), mulkoilla (glare, roll one's eyes, stare). (various references) | |
French | regarder longuement (glower at), lancer un regard furieux (glower at), jeter un regard noir (glower at). (various references) | |
German | Leuchter (candlestick, candlesticks, flambeaux), finster blicken (scowl). (various references) | |
Greek | βλέπω βλοσυρώσ, βλέπω βλοσυρά, βλέπω (see), βλοσυρώ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לזעוף (be angry, look grim, look savage, lour, savage), זעם (anger, fury, rage, spleen, wrath), כעס (anger, be angry, grumpiness, indignation, ire, spleen, wrath). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mogorván néz (look sullenly), barátságtalanul néz. (various references) | |
Indonesian | memandang dengan marah. (various references) | |
Italian | guardare torvo, guardare in cagnesco, sguardo torvo (scowl). (various references) | |
Manx | dy ve ferg-hooillagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owerglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | olhar furioso, olhar ameaçadoramente, olhar ameaçador, fitar com um ar zangado. (various references) | |
Romanian | se întuneca (darken), se încrunta (frown, lour, scowl), privi ameninţãtor (scowl at, scowl upon). (various references) | |
Russian | смотреть сердито, смотреть зверем, сердитый взгляд, нить накаливания (filament). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gledati smrknuto, gledanje razrogačenim očima, mrgođenje, buljiti (goggle, stare). (various references) | |
Spanish | mirar con ceño (lower), mirada furiosa, mirada con ceño, contemplar con ceño. (various references) | |
Swedish | blänga ilsket, blänga argt. (various references) | |
Turkish | yiyecek gibi bakmak, ters ters bakmak (look daggers at smb.), öfkeli bakmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сердитий погляд (scowl), нитка розжарювання, дивитися пильно. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái nhìn trừng trừng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "glower": glowered, glowering, glowers. (additional references) | |
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"Glower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glawari, glomer, glowe, golder, goler, golowan, golzern, Gowar, gowe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "glower" (pronounced glou"er) |
| 3 | -l ou" er | flour, flower. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reglow. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: growl, lower, ogler, rowel. | |
-2 letters: ergo, glow, goer, gore, grew, grow, loge, lore, lowe, ogle, ogre, orle, role, wore. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, gel, gor, leg, log, low, ole, ore, owe, owl, reg, roe, row, woe, wog. | |
-4 letters: el, er, go, lo, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: glowers, growled, growler, legwork, reglows. | |
+2 letters: glowered, gromwell, growable, growlers, growlier, legworks, lowering, reglowed, roweling, waterlog. | |
+3 letters: afterglow, angleworm, flowerage, flowering, glowering, gromwells, growliest, reflowing, reglowing, rowelling, troweling, waterlogs. | |
+4 letters: afterglows, angleworms, flowerages, growliness, loungewear, toweringly, trowelling. | |
+5 letters: beflowering, belowground, clergywoman, clergywomen, deflowering, furbelowing, gillyflower, glassblower, glassworker, globeflower, groundswell, hornswoggle, lowercasing, overblowing, overflowing, reflowering, waterlogged. | |
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