A surface shine or luster. / (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.

(transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to. / (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception / (intransitive) To become shiny.

(countable) 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.

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

plural of gloss

Having a gloss.

simple past tense and past participle of gloss

Alternative form of glosso-, used before a vowel.

present participle of gloss

The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note.