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Definition of Splendor
1. Noun. A quality that outshines the usual.
Generic synonyms: Brightness
Derivative terms: Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant
2. Noun. The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand. "Advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products"
Generic synonyms: Elegance
Specialized synonyms: Eclat
Derivative terms: Brilliant, Brilliant, Grand, Grand, Grand, Magnificent
Definition of Splendor
1. n. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.
Definition of Splendor
1. Noun. (American spelling) Great light, luster or brilliance. ¹
2. Noun. (American spelling) Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur. ¹
3. Noun. (American spelling) Great fame or glory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splendor
1. magnificence [n -S] - See also: magnificence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splendor
Literary usage of Splendor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Poetry by Jay Broadus Hubbell, John Owen Beaty (1922)
"Although Tennyson wrote "The splendor Falls" "after hearing the echoes of ...
THE splendor FALLS The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"F. splendeur, 'splendor. SPIT (2), to throw out from the mouth. .... [Or directly
from Lat. nom. splendor.'] — Lat. splendere, to shine. ..."
3. Travels in the United States, Etc.: During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"For not only close at hand were these countlessly varied masses of luxuriance
and splendor, but beyond rose hills on hills, all like insulated paradises ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"While engaged in transcribing the Scriptures, his left hand was observed to send
forth such a splendor as to afford light to that with which he wrote, ..."
5. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... and agricultural and other arts, reared up by degrees from the condition of
ants to men, will be succeeded by a day of equally progressive splendor; ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Perhaps it will make the exceeding splendor of heaven, if I am permitted to behold
it, more glorious to my view. From The Congregationalism REV. ..."
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