Luster

Noun

 * 1) 🇺🇸 Shine, polish or sparkle.
 * ''He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster.
 * 1) By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
 * ''After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.
 * 1) Refinement, polish or quality.
 * ''He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.

Antonyms

 * dullness
 * lackluster

Derived terms

 * lackluster
 * lusterware, lustreware

Related terms

 * lustrous
 * lustrum

Verb

 * 1)  To gleam, have luster
 * 2)  To give luster, distinguish
 * 3)  To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster

Noun

 * 1) A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.2.ii:
 * Mesue and some other Arabians began to reject and reprehend it; upon whose authority, for many following lusters, it was much debased and quite out of request [...].

Related terms

 * lustral

Adjectives for Luster
joyless; exceeding; collective;  dazzling; sparkling; added; undiminished; feeble; refreshing; smooth; vitreous; glossy; dull; intolerable; classic; freshening; full; subdued; feverish; transient; ethereal; brilliant; iridescent; penetrating; timid; ancient; soft;  purer;  growing;  spectral; hoary; starry; nebulous; pearly; antique; welcome; sulphurous; natural; hungry; original.

Thesaurus
abundant year, academic year, afterglow, air glow, annum, aura, be bright, beacon, beam, bedazzle, bissextile year, blaze, blaze of glory, blind, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, buff, burn, burnish, calendar month, calendar year, candescence, ceiling fixture, century, chandelier, charisma, circlet, common year, corona, corona lucis, crown, day, daze, dazzle, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, diffuse light, effulgence, electrolier, envelope, finish, fiscal year, flame, flare, flash, flush, fortnight, fulgurate, furbish, gasolier, give light, glamour, glance, glare, glaze, gleam, glint, gloriousness, glory, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, halo, heavenliness, hour, illustriousness, incandesce, incandescence, iridescence, leap year, luminosity, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, lustrum, magic, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, mystique, nimbus, numinousness, opalescence, patina, polish, quarter, quinquennium, radiance, radiate, ravishingness, refulgence, regular year, resplendence, resplendency, rub, scour, second, semester, send out rays, session, sheen, shine, shine brightly, shininess, shining light, shoot, shoot out rays, sidereal year, skylight, sleek, slick, slick down, solar year, splendidness, splendor, splendorousness, splendrousness, sublimity, sun, sunset glow, term, trimester, twelvemonth, varnish, wax, week, weekday, year

Alternative forms

 * lustre (UK/Commonwealth)

Etymology 1
From lustre:, from  lustro, from  lustro:, akin to lux:

Etymology 2
From lustrum:, from lustrare, cognate with the above

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: Glanz,


 * Polish: połysk
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сјај, сијање, лустер
 * Roman: sjaj, sijanje, luster
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: parıltı


 * Armenian: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Polish: splendor
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Albanian: famë
 * Bulgarian: блясък
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jarkvino, pendlumigilo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: λάμψη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: fénylés,


 * Indonesian: kilau
 * Italian:
 * Persian: درخشش
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: lustru
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: parıltı
 * Vietnamese: ánh


 * : lustre, splendeur

Verb

 * Dutch:, ,


 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: opluisteren


 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * lustre
 * result
 * rulest
 * rustle
 * sutler
 * ulster, Ulster

Etymology 1
From lustre, from  lustro, from

Noun
de


 * 1) A chandelier, an ostentatious ceiling light

Noun
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 * 1) alternative form of luister

Verb form

 * 1) imperative and singular present imperfect forms of lusteren

Noun

 * 1) chandelier

Etymology
From Luster:.