glory
English
/ˈɡlɔːɹi/, /ˈɡlo(ː)ɹi/
noun
Definitions
- Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour.
- 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.
- Worship or praise.
- (meteorology) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
- Victory; success.
- An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
- (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
- (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English glory derived from Old French glorie (glory) derived from Latin glōria (glory, fame, ambition, renown, boasting, honour, praise).
Origin
Latin
glōria
Gloss
glory, fame, ambition, renown, boasting, honour, praise
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- beglory English
- days English
- disglory English
- foreglory English
- gloriest English
- glorieth English
- gloriful English
- gloriless English
- gloriness English
- glorious English
- gloriously English
- gloriousness English
- glorisome English
- glory days English
- glory-worthy English
- gloryful English
- gloryless English
- inglorious English
- self-glorious English
- ungloriful English
- unglorious English
- glorior Latin
- gloriosus Latin
- glōria Latin
- gloria Italian
- Gloria Spanish, Castilian
- gloria Spanish, Castilian
- glorie Middle English
- glorious Middle English
- glory Middle English
- glorie Old French
- glòria Catalan, Valencian
- glóir Old Irish
- glòria Occitan