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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPLENDOR, n. [L. See Plant and Planet.]
1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; as the splendor of the sun.
2. Great show of richness and elegance; magnificence; as the splendor of equipage or of royal robes.
3. Pomp; parade; as the splendor of a procession or of ceremonies.
4. Brilliance; eminence; as the splendor of a victory.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a quality that outshines the usual [syn: luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendour]
2: 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 grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English splendure, from Anglo-French splendur, from Latin splendor, from splend?re Date: 15th century 1. a. great brightness or luster ; brilliancy b. magnificence, pomp 2. something splendid <the splendors of the past> • splendorous also splendrous adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Splendor Splen"dor, n.[L. fr. splendere to shine: cf. F. splendeur.] 1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. --B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. ``Rejoice in splendor of mine own.'' --Shak. 3. Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory. Syn: Luster; brilliancy; magnifience; gorgeousness; display; showiness; pomp; parade; grandeur.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Lustre, brilliance, brilliancy, brightness, refulgence. 2. Magnificence, pomp, stateliness, show, gorgeousness, pompousness, display, parade, showiness, grandeur, éclat. 3. Eminence, celebrity, fame, glory, brilliancy, grandeur, renown. 4. Grandeur, sublimity, loftiness, nobleness.

Moby Thesaurus

Babylonian splendor, aura, beauty, blare, blaze, blaze of glory, blazing light, blinding light, bright light, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light, burst of light, charisma, dazzle, dazzling light, display, effulgence, elaborateness, elegance, envelope, exquisiteness, flamboyance, flood of light, fulgor, glamour, glare, glaring light, glitter, gloriousness, glory, gloss, gorgeousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, halo, heavenliness, illustriousness, imposingness, impressiveness, lavishness, light, luminosity, luminousness, luster, luxuriousness, luxury, magic, magnificence, majesty, mystique, nimbus, nobility, numinousness, panoply, plushness, pomp, poshness, proudness, radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, ravishingness, refulgence, refulgency, resplendence, resplendency, richness, ritziness, shine, show, spectacle, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendorousness, splendrousness, state, stateliness, streaming light, sublimity, sumptuousness, swank, vividness