glorious
having or deserving or conferring glory
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,131 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,308 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having or deserving or conferring glory a long and glorious careerour glorious literature
- characterized by grandeur also: brilliant, magnificent, splendid the brilliant court life at Versaillesa glorious work of art
- having great beauty and splendor also: resplendent, splendid, splendiferous a glorious spring morninga glorious sunset
glorious in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Once during that long and glorious afternoon they had trouble.
Half-Past Seven Stories · Robert Gordon Anderson · Chapter 1
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And cried, "We are in luck to-day, How glorious we shall sup!"
Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 · Robert Seymour · Chapter 1
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Aaron lent her books in these three languages, which straightway carried her into strange and glorious worlds.
Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life · Myra Kelly · Chapter 1
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The Renaissance people, to take a medium time, expressed themselves by painting glorious colors on flat canvas; they also had emotions.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel · Elinor Glyn · Chapter 1
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Down the broad valley fast and far The troubled army fled; Up rose the glorious morning star, The ghastly host was dead.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1