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C1thespecialexcitingandattractivequalityof aperson,place, oractivity: 吸引力；魅力；诱惑力 Who canresistthe glamourofHollywood?谁能抗拒得了好莱坞的诱惑？ - Compared to theextravaganceand glamour of last winter'sclothes, this season'scollectionlooksimple,almostworkaday.
- Modernluxuryshipsare apaleimitationof the glamour andstyleof the earlyoceanliners.
- The party'selectoralmessagemay beobscuredby theglitzand glamour ofitspresentation.
- He wasdrawnto themetropolitanglamour andexcitementofParis.
- Somepeopleareattractedby the glamour ofworkingintelevision.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAttracting and tempting - affinity
- allure
- alluringly
- arrest
- attract
- catnip
- charisma
- charm offensive
- charm the pants offsomeoneidiom
- chum
- glamorousness
- honey trap
- incentive
- jump out atsomeone
- lure
- tempt
- temptation
- temptingly
- ticklesomeone'sfancyidiom
- va-va-voom
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm glamour| American Dictionaryaqualityof someone or something thatcausesexcitementandadmirationbecause ofitsstyleorattractiveappearance: Hollywoodglamour Thedownhillracewas one of the glamoureventsof the WinterOlympics. Examplesofglamourglamour The effect is distant, listless, empty, hollow, and the overall character of this opening section as a whole is of a run-down, worn-outglamour.From theCambridge English Corpus Topics and formal organization are conventional;glamouris both more personal and more ideological.From theCambridge English Corpus This could arguably further marginalize the care and services provided for older people as a speciality, which also lackedglamour.From theCambridge English Corpus Somewhere along the way, theglamourof everyday shoddiness is lost to all but a few of us.From theCambridge English Corpus The world of the stem cell debate and genetics, for instance, becomes very technologically attractive, with all its allure andglamour.From theCambridge English Corpus Most respondents, however, defined real prestige in opposition to quick success,glamourand glitz.From theCambridge English Corpus The epitome ofglamourand decadence before the 1949 revolution, the city was punished for its capitalist excesses afterwards.From theCambridge English Corpus By contrast, tsotsidom offeredglamourand a sense of importance.From theCambridge English Corpus They trade onglamourand dreams without drawing attention to risks and complications.From theCambridge English Corpus But the appeal of mechanical analogies was not merely a matter of technologicalglamour.From theCambridge English Corpus It's theglamourof setting out on an aesthetic adventure of that magnitude, of that degree of freshness.From theCambridge English Corpus First, it drew on theglamourof astonishing technology.From theCambridge English Corpus The international icons ofglamourserved variously as jealously collected possessions and as casual communicative media.From theCambridge English Corpus The vendors were asked for the most popular title in the following 11 categories: auto, business, computer, home, men's lifestyle, news, sports, entertainment, travel, women's fashion/glamour, and women's lifestyle.From theCambridge English Corpus In the music of the eighteenth century the sonicglamourtypically occupies a gap between the local effects of topical semiotics and the long-range effects of organic integration.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |