GLORIES Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of glory

as in accolades

public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement the theater director gave the stage crew all the glory for the successful production

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as in treasures

an asset that brings praise or renown the new art museum has become the glory of the college campus

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as in aureoles

an artistic rendering of radiant light around the head or body of a sacred personage an altarpiece depicting God seated on His throne and bathed in celestial glory

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glories

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verb

present tense third-person singular of glory

as in delights

to feel or express joy or triumph the whole city gloried in the home team's winning of the World Series

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Recent Examples of glories

Noun

The handwritten sign on the cooler, extolling the glories of bottarga, is your first hint that Bottega Gabriele’s Italian bona fides run deep. —

Allecia Vermillion, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026 But the trophies, the glories, the doubles, trebles and even more spectacular successes — six trophies, lest it be forgotten, in one year for Barca — tell only part of the story about why Pep Guardiola will be remembered among the genuine greats of his profession. —

Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 22 May 2026 The glories of Cannes are upon us. —

David Remnick, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 Edna, that was a glorious question about glories! —

Ray Petelin, CBS News, 9 May 2026 Romanticize the Dive, Metric’s tenth album, looks backwards in an attempt to recapture those old glories. —

Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 4 May 2026 Fascism spins the greatest fictions of all time—about race, about origins, about past and future glories—and people eat them up. —

Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026 His boldest innovation is to invoke not past glories but past disasters, summoning the ghosts of the United States’ catastrophic interventions in Iraq. —

Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026 The president spent much of his confounding talk, little more than a collection of soundbites, really, on the glories of his limited accomplishments these past few weeks. —

The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for glories

Noun

The spa The Mandarin Oriental’s spa is a major draw—and not only because the wellness center has earned some of the highest accolades in the city.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Her novels have won accolades from the New York Times, the American Booksellers Association, the American Library Association, and Junior Library Guild.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026