what does glorious mean?
GLORIOUS as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- having great beauty and splendor
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- a glorious spring morning
- a glorious sunset
- splendid costumes
- a kind of splendiferous native simplicity
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- Meaning
- bringing great happiness and thankfulness
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- glorious freedom
- glorious times
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- Meaning
- having or deserving or conferring glory
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- a long and glorious career
- our glorious literature
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- Meaning
- characterized by or attended with brilliance or grandeur
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- the brilliant court life at Versailles
- a glorious work of art
- magnificent cathedrals
- the splendid coronation ceremony
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- Meaning
- having or worthy of pride
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- redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance
- born of a redoubtable family
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