GLORY
What does "GLORY" mean?
High renown, magnificence, or radiant beauty won by great achievement or deserving praise.
Meanings
- Great honor, fame, or admiration won by notable achievements. The team played for glory, not money.
- Magnificence, splendor, or great beauty. The garden was in its full summer glory.
- Praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to God. They sang to give glory to the heavens. formal
- A halo of light, or an optical ring of colored light around a shadow cast on cloud. From the plane she saw a glory ringing the shadow on the clouds below. technical
- To rejoice or take great pride in something (usually 'glory in'). He gloried in his children's success.
Did you know?
- A 'glory' is also a real atmospheric optical effect - the ring of colored light you can see around your own shadow when looking down at clouds from a plane or mountaintop.
Word origin
From Latin 'gloria' meaning 'fame, renown', via Old French 'glorie' into Middle English.
Remember it
GLORY holds a tiny 'lor' of fame and ends in the cheer 'yyy!' you raise in victory.
A little poem
The crowd forgets your name by spring.
What lasts is not the trophy's shine
but how the running felt that day.
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What it teaches
Glory is loaned, not owned; the crowd that lends it keeps the right to call it back.
Quick facts
What does GLORY mean?
High renown, magnificence, or radiant beauty won by great achievement or deserving praise.
Is GLORY a valid word?
Yes — GLORY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GLORY?
GLORY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does GLORY come from?
From Latin 'gloria' meaning 'fame, renown', via Old French 'glorie' into Middle English.
What can GLORY teach us?
Glory is loaned, not owned; the crowd that lends it keeps the right to call it back.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.