splendor

splendor
    n 1: a quality that outshines the usual [syn: {luster},
         {lustre}, {brilliancy}, {splendor}, {splendour}]
    2: 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" [syn: {magnificence},
       {brilliance}, {splendor}, {splendour}, {grandeur},
       {grandness}]
    

Splendor \Splen"dor\, n.[L. fr. splendere to shine: cf. F.
   splendeur.]
   1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the
      splendor ot the sun. --B. Jonson.
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   2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage,
      ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in
      splendor of mine own." --Shak.
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   3. Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.
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   Syn: Luster; brilliancy; magnifience; gorgeousness; display;
        showiness; pomp; parade; grandeur.
        [1913 Webster] Splendrous
    

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "splendor":
      Babylonian splendor, aura, beauty, blare, blaze, blaze of glory,
      blazing light, blinding light, bright light, brightness,
      brilliance, brilliancy, brilliant light, burst of light, charisma,
      dazzle, dazzling light, display, effulgence, elaborateness,
      elegance, envelope, exquisiteness, flamboyance, flood of light,
      fulgor, glamour, glare, glaring light, glitter, gloriousness,
      glory, gloss, gorgeousness, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, halo,
      heavenliness, illustriousness, imposingness, impressiveness,
      lavishness, light, luminosity, luminousness, luster, luxuriousness,
      luxury, magic, magnificence, majesty, mystique, nimbus, nobility,
      numinousness, panoply, plushness, pomp, poshness, proudness,
      radiance, radiancy, radiant splendor, ravishingness, refulgence,
      refulgency, resplendence, resplendency, richness, ritziness, shine,
      show, spectacle, splendidness, splendiferousness, splendorousness,
      splendrousness, state, stateliness, streaming light, sublimity,
      sumptuousness, swank, vividness