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glam¹

  • /ɡlæm/

Rhymes with -æm

Where it comes from

Clipping of glamour.

noun glams

  1. uncountable Glamour; glamorousness. Who wouldn’t be a glamor girl, a certain-to-enamor girl? What joie de vivre in her life is given her to cram, The dinkum sex-appealing girl, the subtle-charm-revealing girl, ’Mong men the havoc-dealing girl—in short, the girl with glam.!
  2. abbreviation, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of glam rock, the fashion and culture associated with this genre. Blokes sporting make-up and vertiginous platform boots, songs that were precision-tooled melodramas of bubblegum pop and football-terrace stomp, a belief in pop itself as a liberating space for fantasy and shape-shifting: it’s perhaps unsurprising that glam, in whose rise Bowie played a huge part, h

    Similar: glitter

  3. countable A glamour; a cosmetic alteration applied to a piece of equipment. The three types of FFXIV glams: Skimpy, normal clothes, and joke outfits.

adjective glammer · glammest

  1. slang Glamorous.

verb glams · glamming · glammed

  1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.
  2. To apply a glamour to a piece of equipment. your sarcasm is amazing considering I glammed my shire bow with a lvl 1 bow to give my character an amateur hunter look.

GLAM²

noun GLAMs

  1. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
  2. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of Generic Legal Advice Memorandum, issued by the IRS to provide advice to its field agents.

Glam³

Where it comes from

Shortened form of Glamorgan taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.

proper noun

  1. after a qualification University of Glamorgan, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: glamour, glamour photography, glamoury, glitter, glossy, glim, gloss, fulgor, razzle-dazzle, gleam, splendor, beglamourment, glitterer, glare, wonderglow, glistening

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@misc{glam_2026,
  title = {glam},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/glam},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}