glory
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
glory/ˈɡlɔːri/
▶noun (pl. glories)
- 1 high renown or honour won by notable achievements.
- 2 magnificence; great beauty.
■ a beautiful or impressive thing.
■ the splendour and bliss of heaven.
- 3 praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to God.
- 4 a luminous ring or halo.
■ exult in unpleasantly.
– phrases
glory be! expressing enthusiastic piety.
glory days a time in the past regarded as being better than the present.
in one's glory informal in a state of extreme joy or exaltation.
to glory to death or destruction.
glory be! expressing enthusiastic piety.
glory days a time in the past regarded as being better than the present.
in one's glory informal in a state of extreme joy or exaltation.
to glory to death or destruction.
– origin ME: from OFr. glorie, from L. gloria.
'glory' also found in these Oxford entries:
chionodoxa
- clarity
- clianthus
- doxology
- Gloria
- glorify
- gloriole
- glorious
- glory box
- glory hole
- glory-of-the-snow
- izzat
- Knickerbocker Glory
- lustre
- morning glory
- Old Glory
- reflected glory
- rosary
- Shekinah
- transfiguration
