"splendor" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈsplɛndə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsplɛndɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-splendor.ogg [US] Forms: splendors [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ) Etymology: From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendere (“to shine”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|xno|splendur}} Anglo-Norman splendur, {{m|fro|splendour}} splendour, {{der|en|la|splendor}} Latin splendor, {{m|la|splendere||to shine}} splendere (“to shine”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} splendor (usually uncountable, plural splendors)
  1. Great light, luster or brilliance. Tags: US, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-splendor-en-noun-le2u60CV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 41 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 36 34
  2. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur. Tags: US, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Appearance Translations (magnificent appearance): مَجْد (majd) [masculine] (Arabic), пы́шнасць (pýšnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), бляск (bljask) [masculine] (Belarusian), রৌশনী (rōuśoni) (Bengali), splannder [masculine] (Breton), бля́сък (bljásǎk) [masculine] (Bulgarian), великоле́пие (velikolépie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), пи́щност (píštnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), velkolepost [feminine] (Czech), nádhera [feminine] (Czech), honosnost [feminine] (Czech), lesk [masculine] (Czech), pragt [common-gender] (Danish), pracht (Dutch), grandeur (Dutch), splendeur [feminine] (French), Pracht [feminine] (German), μεγαλείο (megaleío) [neuter] (Greek), λαμπρότητα (lamprótita) [feminine] (Greek), χλιδή (chlidí) [feminine] (Greek), hinuhinu (Hawaiian), פְּאֵר (p'ér) [masculine] (Hebrew), הוֹד (hod) [masculine] (Hebrew), breáichte [feminine] (Irish), áilleacht [feminine] (Irish), splendore [masculine] (Italian), splendor [masculine] (Latin), nitiditās [feminine] (Latin), iubar [neuter] (Latin), lux [feminine] (Latin), തേജസ്സ് (tējassŭ) (Malayalam), കാന്തി (kānti) (Malayalam), ahurei (Maori), prakt [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), prakt [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), splendor [masculine] (Polish), wspaniałość [feminine] (Polish), esplendor [masculine] (Portuguese), splendoare [feminine] (Romanian), великоле́пие (velikolépije) [neuter] (Russian), пы́шность (pýšnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), блеск (blesk) [masculine] (Russian), द्युम्न (dyumna) [neuter] (Sanskrit), तेजस् (tejas) [neuter] (Sanskrit), veľkoleposť [feminine] (Slovak), nádhera [feminine] (Slovak), honosnosť [feminine] (Slovak), lesk [masculine] (Slovak), esplendor [masculine] (Spanish), prakt [common-gender] (Swedish), pernerñe (Tocharian B), peñiyo (Tocharian B), 𐎅𐎄𐎗𐎚 (hdrt) (Ugaritic), вели́ч (velýč) [feminine] (Ukrainian), пи́шність (pýšnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), блиск (blysk) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-splendor-en-noun-scoboftX Disambiguation of Appearance: 1 96 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 41 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 36 34 Disambiguation of 'magnificent appearance': 1 97 2
  3. Great fame or glory. Tags: US, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-splendor-en-noun-VsFywlhZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 41 42 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 36 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: splendour [British, Canadian] Derived forms: in splendor

Inflected forms

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          "word": "áilleacht"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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          "word": "nitiditās"
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          "word": "wspaniałość"
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          "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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          "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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          "roman": "velikolépije",
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          "word": "द्युम्न"
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          "roman": "tejas",
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          "sense": "magnificent appearance",
          "word": "𐎅𐎄𐎗𐎚"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "velýč",
          "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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          "roman": "pýšnistʹ",
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      ],
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "da",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "pracht"
    },
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "grandeur"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "splendeur"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pracht"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "μεγαλείο"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "lamprótita",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "p'ér",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "פְּאֵר"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
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      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "הוֹד"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "breáichte"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "áilleacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "splendore"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "splendor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nitiditās"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "iubar"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lux"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "tējassŭ",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "തേജസ്സ്"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "kānti",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "കാന്തി"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "ahurei"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "splendor"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wspaniałość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esplendor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "splendoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "velikolépije",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "великоле́пие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pýšnostʹ",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пы́шность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blesk",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "блеск"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "dyumna",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "द्युम्न"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "tejas",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "तेजस्"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "veľkoleposť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "nádhera"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "honosnosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lesk"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esplendor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "prakt"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "pernerñe"
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    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "peñiyo"
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    {
      "code": "uga",
      "lang": "Ugaritic",
      "roman": "hdrt",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "word": "𐎅𐎄𐎗𐎚"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "velýč",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "вели́ч"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pýšnistʹ",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пи́шність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "blysk",
      "sense": "magnificent appearance",
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      "word": "блиск"
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}

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