allure

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈlʊɚ/ (US)
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/əˈlʊɚ/ (US) · /əˈlɚ/ (US) · /əˈlʊə/ · /əˈljʊə/ · /əˈlɔː/ · /əˈlʉːɹ/ · /əˈluːɹ/

Definition of allure

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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

  1. (countable, uncountable)The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
  2. (countable, dated, uncountable)Gait; bearing.
    “Harper's Magazine The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.

verb

  1. (transitive)To entice; to attract.
    “[They retained] their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake trueillers, whom gotten they did kill.”
    “Injustice doth allure them; as the honour of their vertuous actions enticeth the good.”
    “A tender voice his wondring ear allur'd.”

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Etymology

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

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