Gluck

American  

[glook] / glʊk /

noun

1. Alma Reba FiersohnMme. Efrem Zimbalist, 1884–1938, U.S. operatic soprano, born in Romania.

2. Christoph Willibald von 1714–87, German operatic composer.

3. Louise, 1943–2023, U.S. poet: Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.

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Gluck British  

/ ɡlʊk /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

At 38 years old, Jonathan Gluck was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer—and told he might have as little as 18 months to live.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The jury announced it was awarding Gluck $3.5 million and Caroline $300,000 at the conclusion of an approximately five-hour hearing in Los Angeles on Aug. 20.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

“I meant it as a bit of gallows humor, but he answered by essentially saying, Actually, sort of,” Gluck, a journalist, writes in his forthcoming memoir, An Exercise in Uncertainty.

From Slate • May 2, 2025

It took about an hour on a weeknight after work, and afterward, Gluck made a throwaway joke to the technician: Am I glowing from the radioactive tracer?

From Slate • May 2, 2025

And there in the doorway were Gluck and Derby and Pilgrim—the childish soldier and the poor old high school teacher and the clown in his toga and silver shoes—staring.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut