Gloss

What “Gloss” means

Noun

1. A surface shine or luster.
2. A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

Verb

1. To give a gloss or sheen to.
2. To make (something) attractive by deception
3. To become shiny.
4. Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).

Noun

1. 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.
2. Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
3. An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
4. An extensive commentary on some text.
5. An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.

Verb

1. To add a gloss to (a text).

Where the word comes from

Probably from a North Germanic language, compare Icelandic glossi (“spark, flame”), glossa (“to flame”); or perhaps from dialectal Dutch gloos (“a glow, flare”), related to West Frisian gloeze (“a glow”), Middle Low German glȫsen (“to smoulder, glow”), German glosen (“to smoulder”); ultimately from Proto-Germanic *glus- (“to glow, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰel- (“to flourish; be green or yellow”). More at glow.

From Middle English glosse, alteration of glose, from Old French glose, from Late Latin glōssa (“obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”), from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “language”). Doublet of glossa and gloze.

An alteration of Middle English glosen after Etymology 2, from Old French gloser; compare Medieval Latin glossāre.

Business name ideas with “Gloss”

Industries where “Gloss” fits

We suggest this word for 5 business types and industries, including:

• Car Detailing Business
• Cosmetics Brand
• Nail Salon
• Car Washes
• Nail Salons