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# lustre

«lustre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, shining glow on a surface, like the shine on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (lustre — uncountable; US spelling: luster)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lustre is a soft, shining glow on a surface, like the shine on pearls, silk, metal or healthy hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#m1)

2) Lustre is the special quality or fame that makes something seem bright and admired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#m2)

3) (science) Lustre is how a mineral reflects light: metallic, glassy, pearly, dull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on rocks and metals, lustre is one way to identify minerals: gold has a metallic lustre, quartz a glassy one. In everyday life polishing brings back lustre. In stories «the event lost its lustre» means it became less exciting. Phrases: «metallic lustre», «lose its lustre», «add lustre to».

### examples

- The pearl had a beautiful soft lustre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x1)
- Gold keeps its lustre for thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x2)
- Polishing the old spoon brought back its lustre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x3)
- We sorted the minerals by lustre: metallic or non-metallic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x4)
- Her hair had a healthy lustre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x5)
- After a week, the new game lost its lustre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x6)
- If it sparkles as brightly as ever go straight on, but if its lustre is dimmed choose another path.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/#x7)

### note

UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand: «lustre»; USA: «luster». Adjective «lustrous» (shiny). Uncountable.

### In the corpora

- [Geologists identify minerals by hardness, colour, lustre (shine), streak and how they break.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/50-minerals-and-crystals/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lustre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lustre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.