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6-letter words (7 found)

LUSTER,LUSTRE,LUTERS,RESULT,RUSTLE,SUTLER,ULSTER,

5-letter words (8 found)

LURES,LUSER,LUTER,LUTES,RULES,STURE,TRUES,TULES,

4-letter words (30 found)

ELTS,ERST,LEST,LETS,LUES,LURE,LURS,LUST,LUTE,REST,RETS,RUES,RULE,RUSE,RUST,RUTS,SLUE,SLUR,SLUT,SUER,SUET,SURE,TELS,TRES,TRUE,TULE,ULES,URES,USER,UTES,

3-letter words (24 found)

ELS,ELT,ERS,EST,LES,LET,LEU,LUR,RES,RET,RUE,RUT,SEL,SER,SET,SUE,SUR,TEL,TES,ULE,URE,USE,UTE,UTS,

2-letter words (10 found)

EL,ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TE,UR,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of lustre

lustre

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlʌstə/
  • Rhymes: -ʌstə

Etymology 1

From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).

Noun

lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.)
  2. (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.
  3. A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons.
  5. (dated) A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres.
Antonyms
  • dullness
  • lacklustre
Derived terms
  • lustreware
Related terms
  • lustrous
Translations

Verb

lustre (third-person singular simple present lustres, present participle lustring, simple past and past participle lustred)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lustre, from Latin lustrum, from Old Latin *loustrom, of uncertain origin. More at lustrum.

Noun

lustre (plural lustres)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster: A 5-year period, especially (historical) in Roman contexts.

Etymology 3

From Latin lustra (“wilds, woods”), thought to derive from unattested *dustrum, from unattested Ancient Greek *δύστρον (*dústron, “place animals wallow”), from δύω (dúō, “to plunge, to wallow”).

Noun

lustre (plural lustres)

  1. (British spelling, obsolete) Alternative form of luster: a den, a dwelling-place in a wilderness, especially for animals.

References

  • “lustre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Luster, Ulster, lurest, luster, luters, result, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lustrum. Doublet of llustre and llostre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈlus.tɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈlus.tɾe]

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

  1. lustrum (period of five years)

Related terms

  • llustre

Further reading

  • “lustre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lystʁ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lūstrum (“purification celebrated every few years; a period of five or four years”).

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

  1. (literary) lustrum; period of five years
  2. (figuratively; chiefly in the plural) a very long time, an eternity
    Synonyms: éternité, (informal) plombes, (informal) belle lurette
    Ça fait des lustres que je ne t’ai pas vu ! ― I haven't seen you in ages!
Usage notes
  • Larousse considers all senses of this word as literary, but only that of "five years" is marked as such by Le Robert and Trésor.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

  1. lustre, chandelier
  2. gloss, shine, lustre
Related terms
  • lustrage
  • lustrer
  • lustrine
Descendants
  • Russian: лю́стра f (ljústra)
  • Polish: lustro n

References

Italian

Adjective

lustre f pl

  1. feminine plural of lustro

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lustro.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

  1. lustre; shine

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From French lustre.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: lus‧tre

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

  1. chandelier

Etymology 2

Verb

lustre

  1. inflection of lustrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlustɾe/ [ˈlus.t̪ɾe]
  • Rhymes: -ustɾe
  • Syllabification: lus‧tre

Etymology 1

From either French lustre or Catalan llustre, from Italian lustro, derived from the verb lustrare. A French or Catalan intermediate is likely due to the change in the final vowel, typical of borrowings that are ultimately early Italianisms before the 16th century. Not attested in Old Spanish; first attested in Nebrija.

Noun

lustre m (plural lustres)

  1. lustre, shine
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

lustre

  1. inflection of lustrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “lustre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “lustre”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 717-718

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