splendor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
splendor (uncountable) (American spelling)
- Great light, luster or brilliance.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, "How the Rhinoceros got its skin"
- 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.
- 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, "How the Rhinoceros got its skin"
- Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
- The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
- Great fame or glory.
- French: splendeur
- German: Pracht
- Italian: splendore
- Portuguese: esplendor
- Russian: великолепие
- Spanish: esplendor
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