luster

See also Luster

English

Alternative forms

• lustre (UK/Commonwealth)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌstə(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro, from Latin lustrare (“to brighten”), akin to lux (“light”)

Noun

luster (plural lusters)

1. (US) Shine, polish or sparkle.

   He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster.

2. By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.

   After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.

3. 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

Translations

a shine, polish or sparkle

Armenian: փայլ (hy) (p’ayl) Dutch: glans (nl), schittering (nl) Esperanto: poluro (eo) Finnish: kiilto (fi), loiste (fi), hohde (fi), hohto (fi) French: lustre (fr) m., éclat (fr) m. German: Glanz  (de), Lüster (de)

Polish: połysk (pl) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сја̑ј (sh), сијање (sh), лу̀стер (sh) Roman: sjȃj (sh), sijanje (sh), lùster (sh) Spanish: lustre (es) m. Turkish: parıltı (tr)

brilliance, attractiveness or splendor

Armenian: փայլ (hy) (p’ayl), շուք (hy) (šuk’) Dutch: luister (nl) m., glans (nl), splendeur (nl) Finnish: hohto (fi) French: éclat (fr) m.

Polish: splendor (pl) m. Portuguese: lustre (pt) Spanish: lustre (es) m.

refinement, polish or quality

Albanian: famë (sq) Bulgarian: блясък (bg) (bryasak) Dutch: lustrum (nl) Esperanto: jarkvino (eo), pendlumigilo (eo) Finnish: loisto (fi) m., loiste (fi) French: lustre (fr) Galician: brillo (gl) German: Lüster (de), Glanz (de) Greek: λάμψη (el) (lámpsi) Hebrew: מאור (he) (mâ'ôr) Hungarian: fénylés (hu), ragyogás (hu) m.

Indonesian: kilau (id) Italian: lustro (it) m. Persian: درخشش (fa) Polish: żyrandol (pl) Portuguese: lustre (pt) Romanian: lustru (ro) Russian: блеск (ru) (bresk) Spanish: lustre (es) m. Turkish: parıltı (tr) Vietnamese: ánh (vi)

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French: lustre, splendeur

Verb

luster (third-person singular simple present lusters, present participle lustering, simple past and past participle lustered)

1. (intransitive) To gleam, have luster
2. (transitive) To give luster, distinguish
3. (transitive) To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster

Translations

to have luster

Dutch: glanzen (nl), glimmen (nl), stralen (nl)

Spanish: brillar (es)

to give luster

Dutch: opluisteren (nl)

Spanish: lustrar (es)

Etymology 2

From Latin lustrum, from lustrare, cognate with the above

Noun

luster (plural lusters)

1. A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses
   • 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

Translations

A period of five years, lustrum — see lustrum

Anagrams

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

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Dutch

Etymology 1

From French lustre, from Italian lustro, from Latin

Noun

de luster ? (plural lusters, diminutive lustertje)

1. A chandelier, an ostentatious ceiling light

Etymology 2

Noun

de luster ? (plural lusters, diminutive lustertje)

1. alternative form of luister

Verb form

luster

1. imperative and singular present imperfect forms of lusteren

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Polish

Noun

luster

1. genitive plural of lustro

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Luster.

Noun

lùster m. (Cyrillic spelling лу̀стер)

1. chandelier

Declension

    declension of luster

	singular	plural
nominative	luster	lusteri
genitive	lustera	lustera
dative	lusteru	lusterima
accusative	luster	lustere
vocative	lusteru	lusteri
locative	lusteru	lusterima
instrumental	lusterom	lusterima