SPLENDOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does splendour mean? 

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

1. a quality that outshines the usual

2. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

  Familiarity information: SPLENDOUR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPLENDOUR (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 ("splendour" 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 ("splendour" is a kind of...):

elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)

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

eclat (brilliant or conspicuous success or effect)

 Context examples 

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I followed him through the strangest succession of rooms, full of curious barbaric splendour which impressed me as being very rich and wonderful, though perhaps I should think differently now.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Snowdrop consented, and went home with the prince; and everything was got ready with great pomp and splendour for their wedding.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible, its broad disk just skirting the horizon and diffusing a perpetual splendour.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Its splendour was in such contrast to his homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon it.

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

He should not have to think of her as pining in the retirement of Mansfield for him, rejecting Sotherton and London, independence and splendour, for his sake.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The rats were all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only open an inch wide—just as the Moon herself has often come in through the tiniest crack and has stood before me in all her size and splendour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

'Tis true, we can offer you nothing like the gaieties of this lively place; we can tempt you neither by amusement nor splendour, for our mode of living, as you see, is plain and unpretending; yet no endeavours shall be wanting on our side to make Northanger Abbey not wholly disagreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The visit afforded her many pleasant recollections the next day; and all that she might be supposed to have lost on the side of dignified seclusion, must be amply repaid in the splendour of popularity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less of splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)