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Definitions for splendor
splen·dor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendournoun

    a quality that outshines the usual

  2. magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandnessnoun

    the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

    "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"

Wiktionary

  1. splendornoun

    Great light, luster or brilliance.

  2. splendornoun

    Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.

    The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.

  3. splendornoun

    Great fame or glory.

  4. Etymology: From splendur, splendour, or directly from its source splendor, from the verb splendere.

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  1. splendor

    Splendor refers to the state of being magnificent, grand, rich, or strikingly beautiful, often in a way that attracts admiration and attention. It can also describe great brightness or luster.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Splendornoun

    great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun

  2. Splendornoun

    magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like

  3. Splendornoun

    brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory

Wikidata

  1. Splendor

    Splendor is a 1989 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of splendor in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of splendor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of splendor in a Sentence

  1. Robert Browning:

    Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

  2. James Thurber:

    Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

  3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

  4. Thomas Jefferson:

    It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

  5. Gaston Bachelard:

    Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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