"magnificent" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/ Audio: en-us-magnificent.ogg [US] Forms: more magnificent [comparative], most magnificent [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English magnificent, from Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), from magnus (“great”) + -ficēns, a form of -ficiēns, the regular form, in compounds, of faciēns, a participle of facere (“to do”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|magnificent}} Middle English magnificent, {{der|en|frm|magnificent}} Middle French magnificent, {{der|en|la|magnificentior}} Latin magnificentior, {{m|la|magnificus||great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.}} magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), {{m|la|magnus||great}} magnus (“great”), {{m|la|-ficēns}} -ficēns, {{m|la|-ficiēns}} -ficiēns, {{m|la|faciēns}} faciēns, {{m|la|faciō|facere|to do}} facere (“to do”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} magnificent (comparative more magnificent, superlative most magnificent)
  1. Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance. Translations (grand, elegant or splendid in appearance): μεγαλοπρεπής (megaloprepḗs) (Ancient Greek), عَظِيم (ʕaẓīm) (Arabic), رَائِع (rāʔiʕ) (Arabic), عضيم (ʕḍim) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), فن (fən) [Moroccan-Arabic] (Arabic), փառահեղ (pʿaṙaheġ) (Armenian), վեհաշուք (vehašukʿ) (Armenian), պերճ (perč) (Armenian), великолепен (velikolepen) (Bulgarian), magnífic (Catalan), 壯麗 (Chinese Mandarin), 壮丽 (zhuànglì) (Chinese Mandarin), 堂皇 (tánghuáng) (Chinese Mandarin), prachtig (Dutch), belega (Esperanto), suurenmoinen (Finnish), hieno (Finnish), upea (Finnish), mahtava (Finnish), magnifique (French), famôs (Friulian), magnífico (Galician), prächtig (German), μεγαλοπρεπής (megaloprepís) (Greek), נֶהְדָּר (nehdár) [masculine] (Hebrew), शानदार (śāndār) (Hindi), magnifico (Italian), 素晴しい (subarashii) (alt: すばらしい) (Japanese), 장엄한 (jang'eom-han) (Korean), kšasny (Lower Sorbian), велико́лепен (velikólepen) (Macedonian), пре́красен (prékrasen) (Macedonian), ഗംഭീരമായ (gambhīramāya) (Malayalam), whakahirahira (Maori), ورجاوند (varjâvand) (Persian), magnífico (Portuguese), великоле́пный (velikolépnyj) (Russian), величанствен [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), veličanstven [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), magnífico (Spanish), macanudo (Spanish), storartad (Swedish), magnifik (Swedish), tráng lệ (Vietnamese), mirlifike (Walloon)
    Sense id: en-magnificent-en-adj-1vInIHZG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 37 24 Disambiguation of 'grand, elegant or splendid in appearance': 92 6 1
  2. Grand or noble in action. Translations (grand or noble in action): προστατικός (prostatikós) (Ancient Greek), величествен (veličestven) (Bulgarian), suurenmoinen (Finnish), mahtava (Finnish), вели́чествен (velíčestven) (Macedonian)
    Sense id: en-magnificent-en-adj-rtwKZWYR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 37 24 Disambiguation of 'grand or noble in action': 6 93 1
  3. Exceptional for its kind. Translations (exceptional for its kind): suurenmoinen (Finnish), upea (Finnish), ausgezeichnet (German), ഗംഭീരമായ (gambhīramāya) (Malayalam)
    Sense id: en-magnificent-en-adj-UcsItKvH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 37 24 Disambiguation of 'exceptional for its kind': 2 2 96
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: magnificent bird of paradise, magnificent frigate bird, magnificent frigatebird, magnificent seven, magnificently, supermagnificent Related terms: magnificence, beneficent, maleficent, munificent, omnificent

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      "word": "magnificent frigate bird"
    },
    {
      "word": "magnificent frigatebird"
    },
    {
      "word": "magnificent seven"
    },
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    },
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      "word": "supermagnificent"
    }
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      },
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    },
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      },
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      },
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      },
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      },
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      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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        "4": "to do"
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    }
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    {
      "form": "more magnificent",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most magnificent",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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    }
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    "mag‧nif‧i‧cent"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "magnificence"
    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "word": "maleficent"
    },
    {
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    },
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      "word": "omnificent"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1995, “One Small Step”, in Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal, retrieved 2023-05-03",
          "text": "Armstrong: \"Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here.\"\nAldrin: \"Magnificent desolation.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance."
      ],
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          "Grand",
          "grand"
        ],
        [
          "elegant",
          "elegant"
        ],
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          "splendid",
          "splendid"
        ],
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Grand or noble in action."
      ],
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        [
          "noble",
          "noble"
        ],
        [
          "action",
          "action"
        ]
      ]
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1-6 Man City”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Exceptional for its kind."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Exceptional",
          "exceptional"
        ],
        [
          "kind",
          "kind"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/"
    },
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      "audio": "en-us-magnificent.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-us-magnificent.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕaẓīm",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "عَظِيم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "rāʔiʕ",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "رَائِع"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʕḍim",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "عضيم"
    },
    {
      "code": "ary",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "fən",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "tags": [
        "Moroccan-Arabic"
      ],
      "word": "فن"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "pʿaṙaheġ",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "փառահեղ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "vehašukʿ",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "վեհաշուք"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "perč",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "պերճ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "velikolepen",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "великолепен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnífic"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "壯麗"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuànglì",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "壮丽"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tánghuáng",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "堂皇"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "prachtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "belega"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "suurenmoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "hieno"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "upea"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "mahtava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnifique"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "famôs"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnífico"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "prächtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "megaloprepís",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "μεγαλοπρεπής"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "megaloprepḗs",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "μεγαλοπρεπής"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "nehdár",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "נֶהְדָּר"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "śāndār",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "शानदार"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnifico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "すばらしい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "subarashii",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "素晴しい"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jang'eom-han",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "장엄한"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "velikólepen",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "велико́лепен"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "prékrasen",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "пре́красен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "gambhīramāya",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "ഗംഭീരമായ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "whakahirahira"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "varjâvand",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "ورجاوند"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnífico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "velikolépnyj",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "великоле́пный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "величанствен"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "veličanstven"
    },
    {
      "code": "dsb",
      "lang": "Lower Sorbian",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "kšasny"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnífico"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "macanudo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "storartad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "magnifik"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "tráng lệ"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "grand, elegant or splendid in appearance",
      "word": "mirlifike"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "veličestven",
      "sense": "grand or noble in action",
      "word": "величествен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grand or noble in action",
      "word": "suurenmoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "grand or noble in action",
      "word": "mahtava"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "prostatikós",
      "sense": "grand or noble in action",
      "word": "προστατικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "velíčestven",
      "sense": "grand or noble in action",
      "word": "вели́чествен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exceptional for its kind",
      "word": "suurenmoinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exceptional for its kind",
      "word": "upea"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exceptional for its kind",
      "word": "ausgezeichnet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "gambhīramāya",
      "sense": "exceptional for its kind",
      "word": "ഗംഭീരമായ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "magnificent"
}

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