splendour — English Dictionary

Noun

1. British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.

Noun

1. a quality that outshines the usual

   Synonyms

   lusterlustrebrilliancysplendor

   Broader terms

   brightness

2. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand

   Synonyms

   magnificencebrilliancesplendorgrandeurgrandness

   Broader terms

   elegance

   Examples

   for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel

   his ‘Hamlet’ lacks the brilliance that one expects

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   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