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How to pronounce splendor in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendour
Type of brightness
Type Words
Synonyms brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendour
Type of elegance
Has types eclat


it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor.

Examples of splendor

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They can wait out the traffic misery in gas-generated, air-conditioned splendor.
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Only in the inexpressible suffering of Christ could God's splendor be sustained.
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Check out a natural splendor that makes science bleed into the realm of fantasy.
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The age of splendor, of countless lights born anew in the heavens, is long gone.
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Thanks to poem by Coleridge, Xanadu became a metaphor for splendor and opulence.
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There is some sartorial splendor afoot, and it's coming in the form of headwear.
From the techcrunch.com
In the thick, solitary splendor of the movie studio, Monroe Stahr weaves dreams.
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It was a land of royal pageantry, tropical splendor and a fair amount of squalor.
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The splendor you create will be more enduring if the goods are the top of line.
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More examples
  • Luster: a quality that outshines the usual
  • Magnificence: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned ...
  • Splendor is a 1989 Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola.
  • Splendor (1999) is a film directed by Gregg Araki starring Kathleen Robertson, Johnathon Schaech and Matt Keeslar. ...
  • Splendor is a 1935 drama film starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea and was distributed by United Artists. This is also the third film made by Hopkins and McCrea after The Richest Girl in the World and Barbary Coast. The two would also star together in These Three and Woman Chases Man.
  • Great light, luster or brilliance; Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur; Great fame or glory
  • To dream that you live in splendor, denotes that you will succeed to elevations, and will reside in a different state to the one you now occupy. To see others thus living, signifies pleasure derived from the interest that friends take in your welfare.
  • Glory; brilliance. Said of the sun when represented with a human face and environed with rays. It is then a Sun in splendor.
  • The glory and magnificence of a great achievement