Glamour vs Glitter - What's the difference?
glamour | glitter | Synonyms |
(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)
A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.
To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
* Dryden
To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
As nouns the difference between glamour and glitter
is that glamour is an item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance while glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.As verbs the difference between glamour and glitter
is that glamour is to enchant; to bewitch while glitter is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.glamour
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Alternative forms
* glamor (US) (Commonwealth-spelling widely accepted across the states.)Noun
- glamour''' magazines; a '''glamour model
Derived terms
* glamorous/glamourous * glamorously * glamour model * glamour photography * glammed up * glam rock * glamReferences
* ----glitter
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court