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)
• Volapük: nid (vo)

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)
• Arabic: ثريا (ar) (tráiia) m
• 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

Etymology 3

lust +‎ -er

Noun

luster (plural lusters)

1. One who lusts.

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Dutch

Etymology

From French lustre, see luister.

Noun

luster m (plural lusters, diminutive lustertje)

1. A chandelier, an ostentatious ceiling light
2. Alternative form of luister.

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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