Associations to the word «Splendor»

Wiktionary

SPLENDOR, noun. Great light, luster or brilliance.
SPLENDOR, noun. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
SPLENDOR, noun. Great fame or glory.

Dictionary definition

SPLENDOR, noun. A quality that outshines the usual.
SPLENDOR, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats