SPLENDOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splendor mean? 

• SPLENDOR (noun)
  The noun SPLENDOR has 2 senses:

1. a quality that outshines the usual

2. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

  Familiarity information: SPLENDOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLENDOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quality that outshines the usual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brilliancy; luster; lustre; splendor; splendour

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

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brilliance; grandeur; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour

Context example:

advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products

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

elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "splendor"):

eclat (brilliant or conspicuous success or effect)

 Context examples 

And then, in splendor and glory, came the great idea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My small news will sound very flat after her splendors, but you will like them, I know.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then suddenly glancing up, “Hola, by the splendor of heaven, here is our cher petit! Now, by my ten finger bones! this is a rare sight to mine eyes.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To Jo's lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is the truth of the sneer, stamped out from the black iron of the Cosmos and interwoven with mighty rhythms of sound into a fabric of splendor and beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and come home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Moffats were very fashionable, and simple Meg was rather daunted, at first, by the splendor of the house and the elegance of its occupants.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Sit down and rest while I put these things away, then I want to consult you about a very serious matter," said Amy, when she had shown her splendor and driven Polly into a corner.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And if difficulties were necessary to increase the splendor of the effort, what could be harder for a restless, ambitious girl than to give up her own hopes, plans, and desires, and cheerfully live for others?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)