How to pronounce glamour
American English pronunciation
GLAM-er
- IPA
- /ˈɡlæmɚ/
- Syllables
- GLAM · er (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What glamour means
Most people know glamour in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A magic spell that changes how things look
In a sentence: The fairy cast a glamour over the old shed, so it looked like a shining palace.
Where it comes from: It began in Scotland as a changed form of the word grammar. The related old word gramarye meant both book learning and magic.
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