Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Great light or luster; brilliance.
- n. Magnificent appearance or display; grandeur.
- n. Something grand or magnificent.
- n. Great fame; glory.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Great brightness; brilliant luster: as, the splendor of the sun.
- n. Great show of richness and elegance; magnificence; pomp; parade; grandeur; eminence: as, the splendor of a victory.
- n. In heraldry See sun in splendor, under sun. Synonyms Refulgence, Brilliance, etc. See
radiance , n. - To make splendid; illuminate with splendor; light up.
Wiktionary
- n. American Great light, luster or brilliance.
- n. American Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
- n. American Great fame or glory.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy.
- n. Magnifience; pomp; parade.
- n. Brilliancy; glory.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a quality that outshines the usual
- n. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendere ("to shine"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English splendoure, from Old French splendour, from Latin splendor, from splendēre, to shine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yet the splendor is the authenticity of each fluid stage of his development, which is no small task.”
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“This brilliant wheel, justly called a splendor, is attached to a conical cap on the head of the dancer, held by a ribbon or kerchief tied under the chin.”
“The picture postcard view of The Greenbrier resort's white hotel facade offset with tulips in spring splendor is gone, replaced by cranes, dust and construction workers in a dash to finish an underground casino beneath what used to be the front lawn.”
“And then, in splendor and glory, came the great idea.”
“The capital of Hallandren is T'telir, a beautiful city by the sea, a center of the dyeing trade where colorfully-dressed crowds mill through the bustling streets, and living gods rule in splendor, confined to the gilded cage known as the Court of Gods.”
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“As a prelude to an “inevitable” battle between the Red Man and the White Man in a later story in the same collection, a similar setting in all its naturalistic splendor is detailed:”
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“Its architecture, especially what remains of its sixteenth century splendor, is some of the most impressive I've ever seen.”
“But the fact, that a government, in which the principle was carried to the utmost extreme, not only existed, but existed for so long a period, in great power and splendor, is proof conclusive both of its practicability and its compatibility with the power and permanency of government.”
“Zip open the tent and the mountain splendor washes over us”
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“While at prayer, the Archangel Michael teaches her; two illustrious virgins, equal in splendor and virtue encourage her in frequent conversations.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘splendor’.
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important
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EN - eloquence in public speaking
Key words from "The Training of a Public Speaker" by Grenville Kleiser (New York and London, 1920)
beget, imago, approbation, orator, peroration, Cicero, eloquence, elocution, rhetoric, premeditate, plead, Isocrates and 264 more...
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favorites, of all sorts
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Energetic
braze, raze, brisance, brisant, rive, catalyze, whipsaw, crack, actinic, sublimate, animate, vitalize and 88 more...
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pagecrusher's Words
fugu, ilk, rigamarole, superfluous, dearth, sacrosanct, moniker, bifurcate, villainous, onus, brazen, odin and 268 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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diioxyde's Words
macabre, egypt, egyptology, queen, love, sex, sister, lover, web, cobweb, line, circle and 223 more...
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BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Vocab ##5
appint, monarch, counterpart, muse, bestow, unwitting, aghast, admonish, wage, decree, cavalry, phalanx and 126 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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The Iliad
Selection from Homer's, The Iliad. Written 800BCE. Samuel Butler translation.
countless ills, pestilence, Olympus, spoke fiercely, in reverence, with his bow and ..., in their death-th..., loved of heaven, plague, wisest of augurs, black with rage, his eyes flashed ... and 102 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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