glory
Great beauty and splendor.
Other meanings
Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
Synonyms
- praise
- worship
- fame
- honor
- honour
Related words
- beglory
- blaze of glory
- cover oneself in glory
- crowning glory
- dark jungle glory
- degree of glory
- disglory
- foreglory
- Gloria
- glorification
- gloriful
- glorify
Word history
From Latin "glōria" (glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting).
Where this comes from
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