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What (who) is glory - definition
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Glory (movie); Glorified; Glory (disambiguation); Gloryhood; Glory (single); Glory (film); Glory (song); Glory (album); Glory (novel)
glory
I
n.
1) to achieve, win glory
2) to bring glory to
3) to reflect glory on
4) eternal, everlasting glory
5) military glory
6) a blaze of glory
7) glory to (eternal glory to our heroes!)
8) in (one's) glory (to bask in smb.'s glory; to be in one's glory)
II
v. (d; intr.) to glory in (to glory in one's triumph)
glory
I. n.
1.
Honor, renown, fame, celebrity, praise.
2.
Splendor, lustre, brightness, brilliancy, effulgence, pride.
3.
Gloriousness, exaltation, nobleness, grandeur, exceeding greatness or excellence, supreme nobility.
4.
State, pomp, parade, magnificence.
5.
Heavenly bliss, celestial happiness.
6.
Boast, occasion of pride, something to be proud of.
7.
(Painting.) Halo, aureola.
II. v. n.
Exult, vaunt, boast, take pride, triumph, be proud, pride one's self, plume one's self, pique one's self, perk one's self, pat one's self on the back.
glory
¦ noun (plural 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.
¦ verb (glory in) take great pride or pleasure in.
?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.
Origin
ME: from OFr. glorie, from L. gloria.
Examples of use of glory
1. Whoever desires might and glory should know that all might and glory belong to God alone.
2. It is a platitude. (APPLAUSE) When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest ambition, and that all glory was self–glory.
3. Glory, glory hallelujah, you are clapping on beats two and four.
4. Therein will lie his glory and the glory of the rule of law.
5. Jacobucci, a passenger aboard the Carnival Glory.