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Uncommongloss
The correct spelling is gloss.
How to pronounce gloss
/ɡlɑs/
nounIPA: /ɡlɑs/
Say it like: Glo-ss
The correct spelling is gloss. A surface shine or luster/lustre
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A surface shine or luster/lustre
- 2.A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
- 3.A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- 4.A glossary; a collection of such notes.
- 5.An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
verb
- 1.To give a gloss or sheen to.
- 2.To make (something) attractive by deception
- 3.To become shiny.
- 4.To add a gloss to (a text).
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