Allure

Definitions: Allure

Allure

Noun

1. The power to entice or attract through personal charm.

Verb

1. Entice to do.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "allure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Allure

Desire

Cause desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke desire; whet the appetite; appetize, titillate, allure, attract, take one's fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement; tantalize, make one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la bouche.

Motive

Tempt, seduce, overpersuade, entice, allure, captivate, fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure; inveigle; tantalize; cajole; (deceive).

Pain

Attract, allure; (move); stimulate; (excite); interest.

Crosswords: Allure

Afrikaan (airs), Dutch (airs), French (appearance, aspect, bat, bearing, gait, galloper, going, look, pace, pizzazz, rate, sight, sit, smartness, speed, style, view, walk).

La Grande allure (1986)

À toute allure (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Allure (reference)

• Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design) (reference)

• Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos, of an Ordinary Meal (reference)

• Painting the Allure of Nature (reference)

• Personal Renewal: Your Guide to Vitality, Allure, and a Joyful Life Using Healing Herbs, Diet, Movement, and Visualizations (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Allure (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Allure of Rock-Revisited (reference)

• In Search of Angels: The Meaning Myth & Allure of Angels (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Allure (reference)

• Allure of Roadside Curios (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Panasonic Allure EB-TX310 Phone (AT&T) (reference)

• Oneida Allure 12-1/2-Inch Ladle (reference)

• Oneida Allure 13-Inch Basting Spoon (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Likewise, ski resorts in the U.S. also allure many Argentine skiers from December to March (Argentine summer holiday season). (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

The financing package - of great allure to banks with a presence in Bahrain - remains to be arranged. (references)

Nigeria

Oil dependency, and the allure it generated of great wealth through government contracts, spawned other distortions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

tërheq (appeal, arrest, attract, bewitch, call attention to, capture, catch, charm, daggle, dangle, decoy, drag, draggle, draw, draw out, engage, entice, fetch, fix, haul, heave, invite, jerk, lure, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull out, recall, retract, revoke, stretch, take back, tow, tug, web, withdraw), ngashënjej (attract, seduce), joshë (appeal, bewitchment, charm, glamor, glamour, lure, pull, smell), bëj për vete (absorb, capture, conciliate, ingratiate, magnetize, prepossess). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جذب (attract, attraction, catch, charm, engage, entice, hale, haul, magnetize, press, pull, rivet, strain, tempt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съблазнявам (entice, inveigle, lure, seduce, tempt, vamp), чар (allurement, attraction, bewitchment, charm, enticement, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness, lure, magic, magnetism, spell, wizardry), блазня, привлекателност (appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, congeniality, desirability, glamor, glamour, pizzazz, prettiness, relish, seduction, sightliness, solicitation), привличам (align, appeal, attach, attract, draw on, entice, fetch, inveigle, invite, pull, seduce, whip up), примамливост, подмамвам (bait, cajole, carny, decoy, entice, juggle, lure on). (various references)

Chinese 

魅力 (Charm, CHARM++). (various references)

Czech

svést (conduct, debauch, misguide, pervert, seduce), lákat (beckon, draw, entice, lure, tempt, woo). (various references)

Farsi 

تطمیع کردن (Bribe, Buy), شیفتن (Captivate, Charm, Mash), بطمع انداختن (Wile). (various references)

Finnish

vietellä (entice, seduce, tempt), houkutella (attract, coax, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, persuade, tempt). (various references)

French

attrait, attirer, séduire. (various references)

German

anziehen (adjust, apply, attract, be popular, bolt, boom, clothe, draw, draw up, dress, gain, get on, hardness, jerk, make the first move, pull, pull in, pull tight, put on, rise, screw, screw down, screw up, set out, setting, shove on, start moving, start pulling, take, tighten, to attract, to close contacts, to dress, to pick up, to tog, tug, wear), verlockung (bait, enticement, lure, temptation), locken (attract, cluck, curl, curls, decoy, entice, lure, tempt, to attract, to cluck, to entice, tresses, woo), duft (aroma, aura, flavour, fragrance, haze, incense, odor, odour, perfume, redolence, scent, smell, whiff). (various references)

Greek 

δελεάζω (bait, blarney, cajole, captivate, decoy, ensnare, entice, lure, seduce, tempt). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"וח (enticement, fascination, reporting, seduction), קסם (charm, divination, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, magic, spell, witchcraft). (various references)

Hungarian

kecsegtet (hold out, to entice, to flatter), egyéni vonzerő, egyéni vonzóerõ, egyéni varázs (personal magnetism), egyéni báj, csábít (attract, coax, draw, entice, lure, tempt, to allure, to beguile, to entice, to gouge, to lure, to solicit, to wile, wile). (various references)

Indonesian

pemikat (captivator, enchanter). (various references)

Italian

attrarre (appeal, attract, captivate, catch, draw, to pick up), attirare (attract, catch, draw, engage, pull, pull in, rivet, take), allettare (attract, cajole, charm, entice, lure, tempt, wheedle), affascinare (bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue, lead away, spellbind, take), lusingare (adulate, bait, cajoler, cajoling, flatter). (various references)

Manx

cleaynaghey (addict, corrupt, decoy, entice, gravitate, induce, inveigle, lure, seduce), breigey (beguile, blandish, cajole, cajolery, coax, decoy, entice, enticement, inveigle, inveiglement, lure, persuade, seduce, seduction, wheedle). (various references)

Pig Latin

allureay

Portuguese

atrair (appeal, attract, bait, charm, court, decoy, drain away, draw, drew, enlist, entice, fascinate, inveigle, invite, lure, magnetize, rope, to attract, trepan), tentar (attempt, endeavour, endemic, entice, exert, experiment, lurid, play act, pretend, seek, tempt, try), seduzir (attract, bait, beguile, betray, debauch, decoy, drain-ditch, drive, enchanter, entice, enticement, enticing, gullet, inveigle, lure, ruin, seduce, spell, tempt, trepan, vamp, wile), fascinação (attraction, charm, dazzle, fascination, glamor, glamour, spell, witchcraft), encantar (appeal, becharm, bewitch, charm, conjure, delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, fascinated, fetch, flatter, glamor, glamour, lure, rapture). (various references)

Romanian

atrage (appeal, attract, bespeak, call, captivate, commend, conciliate, court, decoy, draw, draw in, enamor, enamour, engage, entice, fetch, fix, interest, inveigle, lure, magnetize, win), ademeni (bait, corrupt, dangle, decoy, delude, ensnare, entice, fascinate, inveigle, lead up the garden, lure, seduce, tempt), vrãji (bedevil, bewitch, cast a glamour over, cast a spell upon, charm, enchant, enrapture, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, lure, spell, spellbind), seduce (entice, fascinate, lead away, seduce, tempt), momi (bait, decoy, entice, inveigle, lure, tempt), ispiti (appeal, attract, bait, carry away, decoy, entice, examine, inveigle, invite, lure, tax, tempt, torture, try), fermeca (bedevil, bewitch, captivate, carry, cast a spell upon, charm, conjure, enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthral, entrance, fascinate, fetch, lure, smite, spell, spellbind, take). (various references)

Russian 

очарование (bewitchment, charm, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, loveliness), заманивать (allured, bait a trap, ensnare, inveigle, trap, wile), привлекать (attract, drum up, enlist, magnetize). (various references)

Scottish

t� laidh (entice, hush to rest, soothe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mamiti (entice, lead on, lure), mamac (bait, decoy, gentle, lure, spoon bait, stalking horse, troll). (various references)

Spanish

atraer (appeal, appeal to, arrest, attire, attract, beat up, beckon, bring in, draw, draw in, engage, entice, fetch, inveigle, invoke, lure, pull, pull in, tempt), atractivo (affinity, allurement, alluring, appeal, appealing, attiring, attraction, attractive, attractiveness, catching, charm, chic, colorful, colourful, cool, delightful, engaging, fetching, gilt, glamor, glamorous, glamour, glamourous, good looking, inviting, kissable, likeable, lure, magnetic, neat, nice-looking, prepossessing, seduction, seductive, seductiveness, seemliness, seemly, sexy, taking, temptation, tempting, whatever, winsome), apartar (abduce, alienate, avert, deviate, distract, divert, divide, draw aside, draw away, draw off, fob, head off, hold off, keep apart, look away, lure away, move aside, move away, move over, push away, refract, separate, set aside, shut off, stave off, take away, throw aside, to deviate, turn aside, turn away), seducir (attract, beguile, debauch, draw, entice, inveigle, lead on, lure, seduce, tempt), fascinar (bewitch, enchant, enthral, enthrall, fascinate, intrigue). (various references)

Swedish

locka (appeal to, bait, beguile, call, curl, entice, entire, inveigle, lead on, lure, tantalise, tantalize, tempt, wheedle, woo). (various references)

Turkish

ayartmak (beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, pervert, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), albeni (allurement, attractiveness, blandishments, charm, sales appeal), aklını başından almak (enamor, enamour, enchant, enrapture, infatuate, sweep smb. off his feet), aklını çelmek (beguile, bias, cozen, dissuade, draw in, entice away, infatuate, persuade, prepossess, suborn, sway), cazip şey (allurement, honeypot), cazibe (allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, oomph, romance, seduction, witchery), baştan çıkarmak (corrupt, debauch, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, pervert, seduce, tempt, wile), büyülemek (bedazzle, beguile, bewitch, captivate, cast a spell on, catch up, charm, conjure, daze, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, enthral, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamorize, glamour, hypnotize, inthral, spell, spellbind, voodoo, witch), büyüleme (allurement, captivation, casting a spell, enchantment, enthrallment, enthralment, spell), çekme (allurement, bearing, draft, draught, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal). (various references)

Ukranian 

спокуса (allurement, bait, enticement, honeypot, lure, seducement, seduction, temptation), спокушати (attempt, beguile, court, debauch, decoy, deprave, entice, inveigle, lure, offend, seduce), зваблювати (debauch, decoy, wile), зачаровувати (beguile, bewitch, dazzle, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, glamor, glamour, philter, philtre, spell), заманювати (bait, entice, rope, tempt, wile), здобувати (acquire, attain, gain, obtain), притягати. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sức quyến rũ (alluringness, lurchingly, magnetism, spell, witchery), sức lôi cuốn (alluringness, draw, drawn, drew), sức cám dỗ (alluringness, lurchingly), duyên. (various references)

Welsh

llithio (entice, feed, seduce), hudo (attract, beguile, charm), denu (attract, entice). (various references)

delicias, illic, illicque, inliciant, inliciar, inlicitis, invitati, invitatis, invitatos, invitatus, invitaverat, invitavit, pertraho, prolecto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "allure": allured, allurement, allurements, allurer, allurers, allures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Allure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alara, albur, alere, aleure, Alflora, alire, Allaire, allard, Allerce, Allfree, Allfrey, Allori, allr, allur, alluren, allureth, allvre, alore, aloure, alur, alurs, Ballarue, elure, eylure, Gallura, Iluro, lauler, mallaret, Mallarme, Uluru. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laurel.

-1 letter: ureal.

-2 letters: earl, leal, lear, lure, rale, real, rule, urea.

-3 letters: ale, all, are, ear, eau, ell, era, lar, lea, leu, rue.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

+1 letter: allured, allurer, allures, laurels, pleural, rubella, rulable.

+2 letters: allurers, awfuller, brucella, cellular, flexural, furlable, guerilla, laureled, medullar, neurally, nucellar, prunella, rubellas, squaller, tailleur, umbellar, umbrella, unreally.

+3 letters: acellular, aquarelle, barrelful, brucellae, brucellas, carefully, curveball, fearfully, guerillas, guerrilla, laureling, laurelled, medullary, molecular, neutrally, nucleolar, numerally, pluralize, prunellas, quadrille, regularly, scutellar, secularly, squallers, squallier, subcellar, surreally, tailleurs, tearfully, tellurian, ultraleft, umbrellas.

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