Splendor

Quick meaning: Splendor is a noun meaning Great light, luster or brilliance.

Meaning

Great light, luster or brilliance.

More Meanings

1. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
2. Great fame or glory.

Example Sentences

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

Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour.

What tho’ the moon—the white moon Shed all the splendour of her noon, Her smile is chilly—and her beam, In that time of dreariness, will seem (So like you gather in your breath) A portrait taken after death.

The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

Word Forms

• splendors
• splendour
• splendeur

Synonyms for splendor

Depending on context, synonyms include lustre, grandeur, magnificence, splendour, grandness, brilliance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brilliancy, brilliance, lustre, luster, splendour, grandness.

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