Synonyms for splendor
splen·dor

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1. luster, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, splendournoun

   a quality that outshines the usual

   Synonyms:
   sheen, shininess, brilliancy, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, brilliance, luster, splendour, lustre

2. magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandnessnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   wideness, magnanimousness, immensity, richness, enormousness, sizeableness, luster, blaze, nobleness, magnificence, greatness, brilliancy, grandness, vastness, impressiveness, nobility, genius, splendour, lustre, grandeur, glare, brilliance, importance, immenseness

Matched Categories

1. • Brightness
   • Elegance

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1. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   lustre, brilliance, brilliancy, brightness, polish

2. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   magnificence, pomp, stateliness, show, gorgeousness, pompousness, display, parade, ÉCLAT, striking effect

3. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   eminence, celebrity, fame, glory

4. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   grandeur, sublimity

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1. splendornoun

   Synonyms:
   brilliancy, brightness, magnificence, pageantry, pomp, grandeur, renown, glory, eminence, sublimity, fame

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1. List of paraphrases for "splendor":

   splendour, luster, glory, grandeur, magnificence, glamour

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How to use splendor in a sentence?

1. Gaston Bachelard:

   Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

2. Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold":

   No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

3. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:

   Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra... these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

4. David Berkowitz Chicago:

   By means of art, man values the value of his worldview and the event. With it, the man moves to the ground and phosphoresces at the darkness of reality, illuminating his dark path with its splendor, like a magical dark-eyed eye, so it moves between the stars and so lives.

5. Robert Browning:

   Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.