glory

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡlɔː.ɹi/    美 /ˈɡloɹ.i/|[ˈɡlɔɹ.i]|/ˈɡloː.ɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Great beauty and splendor. countable,uncountable
    — He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  2. Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown. countable,uncountable
    — In this faire wize they traueild long yfere, Through many hard assayes, which did betide; Of which he honour still away did beare, And spred his glorie through all countries wide.
  3. That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour. countable,uncountable
    — Deeme it no gloire to swell in tyrannie.
    The New Arcadia
  4. Worship or praise. countable,uncountable
    — Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
  5. An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point. countable,uncountable
  6. Victory; success. countable,uncountable
    — But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.
  7. An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line. countable,uncountable
    — How does the Luſtre of our Father’s Actions, Through the dark Cloud of Ills that cover him, Break out, and burn with more triumphant Brightneſs! His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; […]
  8. The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions. countable,uncountable
  9. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] But if thou declare The Secrets, truth; and art so mad to dare (In glory of thy fortunes) to approue, That rich-crownd Venus, mixt with thee in loue; Ioue (fir’d with my aspersion, so dispred) Will, with a wreakefull lightning, dart thee dead.
  10. Something glorious. countable,uncountable
    — It was a woman’s clothing, beyond a doubt, […] The two men gazed at the heap of feminine glories, — it might have been the most wonderful sight they ever had seen.
动词 v.
  1. To exult with joy; to rejoice.
    — In what the Apostle did glory?—He gloried in a Cross. ... [T]o the Ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the same Meaning, as if the Apostle had gloried in a Halter; gloried in the Gallows; gloried in a Gibbet.
  2. To boast; to be proud.
    — For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also, which I made before Titus, was found to be truth.
  3. To shine radiantly. archaic,poetic
    — Down in a casement sat, A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair

词形变化

glories plural glories present,singular,third-person glorying participle,present gloried participle,past gloried past

词汇关系

近义词
praise worship fame honor honour
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin glōria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”). Doublet of gloria. Displaced native Old English wuldor.
词源 2
From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin glōria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”). Doublet of gloria. Displaced native Old English wuldor.
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