Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Attractiveness; appeal, charisma.

    attractiveness

  2. (countable, uncountable)An enticement, inducement or bait.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The big cities are full of allurements.

    ruБольшие города полны соблазнов. — elsteris

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Forms

plural: allurements
Singularallurement
Pluralallurements

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money):solicitation
  • the power to entice or attract through personal charm:alluretemptingness

Word family

1 related words
Relatedallure

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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