Gluck

[ glook ]

/ glʊk /

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noun

Alma Reba Fiersohn; Mme. Efrem Zimbalist, 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.

Chris·toph Wil·li·bald von

[kris-tawf vil-i-bahlt fuhn], /ˈkrɪs tɔf ˈvɪl ɪˌbɑlt fən/, 1714–87, German operatic composer.

Louise, born 1943, U.S. poet.

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Words nearby Gluck

glucagon, glucan, glucaric acid, glucide, glucinum, Gluck, gluco-, glucochlorose, glucocorticoid, glucogenesis, glucokinase

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How to use Gluck in a sentence

Steve Levitt talks with Gluck — his own agent — about negotiating a deal, advising prospective authors, and convincing him to co-write Freakonomics.
Suzanne Gluck: “I’m a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things” (People I (Mostly) Admire, Ep. 10)|Steven D. Levitt|December 26, 2020|Freakonomics
The series begins with a voiceover from a 9-year-old boy named Charlie (Griffin Gluck), basically a more precocious Meredith Grey.
‘Red Band Society’ Is Really Freaking Sad (And May Be TV’s Best New Drama)|Kevin Fallon|September 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cast: Maggie Lawson, James Caan, Lenora Crichlow, Ben Koldyke, Cooper Roth, Griffin Gluck, J.J. Totah, Kennedy Waite.
Fall-Winter TV Preview: Snap Judgments of 2013–14’s New Shows|Jace Lacob, Kevin Fallon|July 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Composers from Monteverdi to Gluck, to Stravinsky, to Philip Glass, have told it in music.
Ann Wroe’s ‘Orpheus’: Why the Mythological Muse Haunts Us|Ann Wroe|May 31, 2012|DAILY BEAST

He had a short fuse and would sometimes berate her when she spoke too much to Gluck.
Whitey Bulger's Wily Girl|Christine Pelisek|June 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Santa Monica neighbor Barbara Gluck, a former New York Times photographer, saw a different side.
Whitey Bulger's Wily Girl|Christine Pelisek|June 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
So in the Elysian field, to the solemn strains of Gluck's melodies, move without grief or bliss the graceful shades.
Dream Tales and Prose Poems|Ivan Turgenev
Then there was silence, but for the "gluck" with which we lifted our feet from the slush.
Auld Licht Idylls|J. M. Barrie
It is one of the glories of Berlin to give Gluck's operas, and it is also something of a glory to have "die Wagner."
George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3)|George Eliot
An Indian would have had to gluck and cluck and glut for half a minute to make these three words plain.
John Ermine of the Yellowstone|Frederic Remington
What if we compared our own landscape with the music of Gluck or Mozart?
South America To-day|Georges Clemenceau

British Dictionary definitions for Gluck

Gluck

/ (German ɡlʊk) /

noun

Christoph Willibald von (ˈkrɪstɔf ˈvɪlibalt fɔn). 1714–87, German composer, esp of operas, including Orfeo ed Euridice (1762) and Alceste (1767)

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