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Adorn vs Glamour - What's the difference?

adorn | glamour |

As verbs the difference between adorn and glamour

is that adorn is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while glamour is to enchant; to bewitch.

As nouns the difference between adorn and glamour

is that adorn is (obsolete) adornment while glamour is (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance.

adorn

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
  • a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
    a character adorned with every Christian grace
    a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters
  • * Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
  • as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
  • * Goldsmith
  • At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

    Synonyms

    * beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See also

    Noun

  • (obsolete) adornment
  • (Spenser)

    Anagrams

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    glamour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)

    Noun

  • (countable) an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance
  • Witchcraft; magic charm; a spell affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
  • A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are.
  • Any artificial interest in, or association with, an object, or person, through which it or they appear delusively magnified or glorified.
  • (uncountable) Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal)
  • glamour''' magazines; a '''glamour model

    Derived terms

    * glamorous/glamourous * glamorously * glamour model * glamour photography * glammed up * glam rock * glam

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To enchant; to bewitch.
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