GLORY (gloried)

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Irregular inflected form: gloried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does glory mean? 

• GLORY (noun)
  The noun GLORY has 3 senses:

1. a state of high honor

2. brilliant radiant beauty

3. an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

  Familiarity information: GLORY used as a noun is uncommon.

• GLORY (verb)
  The verb GLORY has 1 sense:

1. rejoice proudly

  Familiarity information: GLORY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLORY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of high honor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

glorification; glory

Context example:

he valued glory above life itself

Hypernyms ("glory" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Derivation:

glorify (bestow glory upon)

glorify (cause to seem more splendid)

glorify (praise, glorify, or honor)

glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)

glory (rejoice proudly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Brilliant radiant beauty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

glory; resplendence; resplendency

Context example:

the glory of the sunrise

Hypernyms ("glory" is a kind of...):

beauty (the qualities that give pleasure to the senses)

Derivation:

glorify (bestow glory upon)

glorify (cause to seem more splendid)

glorify (praise, glorify, or honor)

glorious (having great beauty and splendor)

glorious (characterized by grandeur)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aura; aureole; gloriole; glory; halo; nimbus

Hypernyms ("glory" is a kind of...):

light; lightness (the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures)

• GLORY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they glory    ... he / she / it glories   
Past simple: gloried   
Past participle: gloried   
-ing form: glorying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rejoice proudly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "glory" is one way to...):

exuberate; exult; jubilate; rejoice; triumph (to express great joy)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

glory (a state of high honor)

 Context examples 

It is never a man that I should love, but always the glories he had won; for they would be reflected upon me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was the romance, and the wonder, and the glory.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, said he, there is my glory and joy.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Because if you did not wear spectacles the brightness and glory of the Emerald City would blind you.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Then Dora was in her glory.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had long wanted to behold these hidden glories, and to know the Laurence boy, who looked as if he would like to be known, if he only knew how to begin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the glories of the landscape were all wasted upon my companion, who was sunk in the deepest thought.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I could explain to you all this, and all that a man can bear and do, and glories to do, for the sake of these treasures of his existence!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That was the wind-up of the history; that was the glory of Miss Hawkins.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Yet war and glory, my good friend, though well enough in their way, will not serve to tighten such a belt as clasps my waist.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)