Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.

    Verlockung, Reiz, Anziehungskraft

    привлека́тельностьprivlekátelʹnostʹ, шармšarm, очарова́ниеočarovánije

    шармšarm, прива́бливістьpryváblyvistʹ

    the power to entice or attract through personal charm

  2. (countable, dated, uncountable)Gait; bearing.

    Harper's Magazine The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.

    аллю́рalljúr

  3. (countable, uncountable)The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Her wealth finally allured him into matrimony.

  2. He gave himself up to her allure.

  3. She is very pretty, but not alluring.

    ruОна очень мила, но не соблазнительна. — sharptoothed

    deSie ist sehr hübsch, aber nicht verführerisch. — Yorwba

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  4. I will never understand the allure of wealth.

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  5. Layla wasn't conventionally beautiful, but she possessed a certain kind of intense sexual allure.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction:
Русский
By meaning 2
the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction:
gait; bearing:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction:

Origin

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin

From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). By surface analysis, al- + lure.

From Middle English alure, alour, from Old French alure, aleure (“walk, gait”), from aler (“to go”) + -ure.

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Forms

plural: allures
Singularallure
Pluralallures

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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