Adorn vs Glamour - What's the difference?
adorn | glamour |
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
* Bible, Isa. lxi. 10
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) adornment
(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)
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
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Verb
(en verb)- 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
- as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels
- At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.
Synonyms
* beautify * bedeck * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See alsoNoun
- (Spenser)
Anagrams
* * * *glamour
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Alternative forms
* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)Noun
- glamour''' magazines; a '''glamour model