splendor
playSimple Definition of splendor
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: great and impressive beauty
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: things that are very beautiful or impressive
Full Definition of splendor
1a : great brightness or luster : brilliancyb : magnificence, pomp
2 : something splendid <the splendors of the past>
Examples of splendor in a sentence
The palace had lost much of its original splendor.
<the splendor of the ancient monument awed us into silence>
Origin and Etymology of splendor
Middle English splendure, from Anglo-French splendur, from Latin splendor, from splendēre
First Known Use: 15th century
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