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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
glamorous
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ He had never considered girls as glamorous as these to be within his range.
▪ The wives might not have quite as glamorous a job as their husbands flying the planes.
▪ Actually it's not as glamorous as it looks.
▪ The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket, which was what it was principally used for.
▪ The same applies to Scrash, although they're about as glamorous as a donkey on Skegness beach and marginally less attractive.
▪ The job was looked upon as glamorous and attracted some deb-types.
▪ It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
▪ Above all, we still find the role of Diana as glamorous heroine appealing.
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▪ In person they looked somehow smaller than he had expected, less glamorous, certainly younger.
▪ Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.
▪ They are, of course, gentler than Archdeacon Grantly; more democratic, less worldly and less glamorous.
▪ The term Rabari, they felt, was less glamorous than Raika, even derisive.
▪ I could have said that their way of life would slowly become less and less glamorous, more and more morally debilitating.
▪ There is a far less glamorous side to Warne, however.
▪ The colder facts about the patterns of career destinations for the bulk of social science graduates are less glamorous but more diverse.
▪ Consequently, many young people now see choral singing as less glamorous and challenging than playing in an ensemble.
more
▪ There is more glamorous mountain scenery ahead, but this unfortunately is not the way to Zurich.
▪ Young people were available, but they were being attracted to more glamorous occupations.
▪ Robert Maxwell had a military career more glamorous than Blackett's.
▪ For a more glamorous style, hair was brushed out after it had been set.
▪ But a win will bring them more glamorous and more lucrative opposition.
most
▪ The evening clothes were most glamorous.
▪ But the most glamorous were to come.
▪ The ruthless harvesting of some of the most glamorous species eventually developed its own evil logic.
▪ It appears that no one wants to own the most glamorous, star-studded, spooky cemetery in all of Los Angeles.
▪ An evening meeting on a Tuesday at Kempton is not one of racing's most glamorous occasions.
▪ It was Hollywood's most glamorous studio.
▪ Originally designed as freight ships, these may not be the most glamorous vessels afloat, but are pleasantly spacious.
▪ This was certainly not the most glamorous or heroic of episodes.
so
▪ Not everything that Paula had to do was quite so glamorous, however.
▪ Never before has charity been so glamorous.
very
▪ A junior minister in one of the less important departments has no very glamorous task.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ glamorous clothes
▪ glamorous Hollywood movie stars of the 1950s
▪ On television she looks so beautiful and glamorous.
▪ The picture showed a glamorous young woman sitting in a sports car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both pictured a glamorous brunette, at least a dozen years older than herself.
▪ It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.
▪ On television she was so beautiful and glamorous, and here she looked so tired and almost old.
▪ Want to buy underpriced apartments in a glamorous location that has few vacancies and little competition from new construction?
▪ Yet the woman who finds a genuinely protective mate in a less glamorous man may still feel romantically deprived.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
glamorous

glamourous \glamourous\ glamorous \glamorous\adj. having an air of allure, romance and excitement; as, glamorous movie stars.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
glamorous

1882, from glamor + -ous. Related: Glamorously.\n

Wiktionary
glamorous

a. 1 Having glamour; stylish. 2 (context archaic English) Being associated with one or more glamours. alt. 1 Having glamour; stylish. 2 (context archaic English) Being associated with one or more glamours.

WordNet
glamorous

adj. having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars" [syn: glamourous]

Wikipedia
Glamorous (album)

Glamorous ( TC: 艷光四射, SC: 艳光四射) is a Cantopop album by Denise Ho which pays tribute to recording artists of the 80's, including Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan, Sam Hui, etc. It was her first CD released by East Asia Music.

Glamorous (Natalia song)

"Glamorous" is the second single of Natalia's third studio-album Everything and More. The single is written by Australian singer Jade McRae and fellow Australian Adrian Newman. The single version features En Vogue, with Rhona Bennet singing the second verse solo, although the album version (first and second release) is only sung by Natalia.

Glamorous

Glamorous may refer to:

  • Glamour (presentation)
  • Beauty
  • Glamorous, a member of the Juice Crew
  • "Glamorous" (Fergie song), a 2006 song by Fergie
  • "Glamorous" (Natalia song), a 2007 song by Natalia & En Vogue
  • Glamorous (album), a 2005 album by Denise Ho
Glamorous (Fergie song)

"Glamorous" is a song recorded by American singer and rapper Fergie for her debut studio album, The Dutchess (2006). The song features vocals from American rapper Ludacris. It was released as the third single from The Dutchess worldwide except for in the United Kingdom, where it served as the second single. The song was serviced to mainstream radios on January 23, 2007 and to Rhythmic radios on February 20, 2007 in the United States, through A&M Records, together with will.i.am Music Group and Interscope Records.

It was written by Fergie, Ludacris, will.i.am, Elvis Williams and Polow da Don; the latter also produced the song. "Glamorous" is an airy hip hop and R&B song that has a slower feel from the album's previous hip-hop and dance tinged singles. The lyrics deal with the protagonist staying rooted despite her success and fame. "Glamorous" garnered generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics, who commented on its smooth, generic sound and its lyrics, which have been likened to those of Gwen Stefani's " Luxurious" (2005) and Jennifer Lopez's " Jenny from the Block" (2002).

The song achieved commercial success worldwide, peaking inside the top ten in several countries, including Australia and Ireland, it reached the top three on the singles charts. "Glamorous" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Fergie's second number one hit on the chart as a solo artist. The song also became her third best selling song in the United States, amassing sales of over three million copies as of August 2012, and earning a double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The music video for "Glamorous" features Fergie in scenes in which she portrays a successful actress and a teenager, acting as flashbacks from her past. "Glamorous" was featured in the video game, Grand Theft Auto V, in the radio station Non Stop Pop FM.

Glamorous (rapper)

Glamorous (born JoAnn Berry July 19, 1967) lived in Freeport, NY. Long Island's first female Rapper to hit vinyl in the mid 80's. Female rapper since the 70's underground. Her first LP with the Glamour Girls "Oh Veronica Veronica" on Pop Art Records. Then her acceptance into the Juice Crew when Mr. Magic hired her to do a promo for his show "The Rap Attack" on 107.5 WBLS in the 80's. Glamorous appeared on various projects. She released her own LP on Prism Records "Good to Go" and "I know you want Me" and her part on Cold Chillin' Juice Crew All Stars. She wrote her part on the Hip Hop Black history LP called "Evolution" where she portrayed Maya Angelou.

Glamorous worked with various different producers such as Nile Rodgers, Marley Marl, Hollywood, and Tony D. Fly Ty Tyrone Williams was her manager. Glamorous was a very interesting artist. She worked at Cold chillin Records as well as being an artist on the label. She is the cousin of the world renowned Chuck Berry.

Usage examples of "glamorous".

His stories not only distract Arete and Alkinoos but also make him glamorous in their eyes.

Yes, it was her, one of the women from her year at the Botswana Secretarial College, one of those fun-loving glamorous girls who ended up getting barely fifty per cent, and there she was, dancing with a confident and attractive man.

Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.

Once upon a time, as Olivia Chenier, spoiled and wild and the youngest of the golden Archer clan, she had been as glamorous and above their touch as a movie star to the people of the town.

For three days, she walked in and out of tall buildings, visited every personnel agency she could find, from the grimiest to the most glamorous.

Glamorous woman number two hops in and I head off to Torquay Road in Foxrock to collect number three, the wife of their host for the evening.

He wondered whether the innocence and relative smallness of youth had only made things seem so much huger, so much more glamorous than reality.

Seen in retrospect, her evening with Gordon Longford appeared neither so glamorous in the early hours, nor so melodramatic in the latter part as it had seemed to her on her return home.

Smoking was such a glamorous addiction, and you met the nicest people.

Student radicals today may call Kennedy a phony liberal and a glamorous sellout, but only the very young will deny that it was Kennedy who got them excited enough to want to change the American reality, instead of just quitting it.

I had no part in policing the spatiotemporal lanes, rescuing travelers in distress, or anything glamorous like that.

That he said nothing of antiquarian rambles in the glamorous old city with its luring skyline of ancient domes and steeples and its tangles of roads and alleys whose mystic convolutions and sudden vistas alternately beckon and surprise, was taken by his parents as a good index of the degree to which his new interests had engrossed his mind.

There were so many more glamorous places to work--such as the big planet-finder telescope array laid out in a North Pole crater, capable of resolving the surfaces of Earth-like planets orbiting suns spread across fifty light-years.

In the street looked on underworld hoods as some sort of glamorous, charismatic defiers of the system.

The women in them looked impossibly glamorous and soignee, and never in a lifetime could Nell imagine her hair looking like theirs, but when she and Liz stepped out of the salon into the autumn sunshine just over an hour later, she was forced to confess that Paul had practically performed a miracle.