SPLENDOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Example:

advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products

Synonyms:

brilliance; grandeur; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("splendor" is a kind of...):

elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "splendor"):

eclat (brilliant or conspicuous success or effect)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A quality that outshines the usual

Synonyms:

brilliancy; luster; lustre; splendor; splendour

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("splendor" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

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Context examples:

But somehow envy and discontent soon vanished when she thought of all the patient love and labor John had put into the little home awaiting her, and when they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright that she forgot Sallie's splendor and felt herself the richest, happiest girl in Christendom.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

What did Mother give you out of the treasure box? asked Amy, who had not been present at the opening of a certain cedar chest in which Mrs. March kept a few relics of past splendor, as gifts for her girls when the proper time came.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendor.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride.