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Meanings of grandeur in English
The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand.
Synonyms
Examples for "splendor"
Examples for "splendor"
1
Honor the sons of the poor; they give to science its splendor.
2
Nobody doubts the splendor of the material glories of the ancient nations.
3
The flower of the forbidding plant was the splendor of the forest.
4
The capital displayed at that hour all the splendor of its luxury.
5
His career in the ministry of the Gospel glowed with mysterious splendor.
1
The very air sparkled, diamond-clear in the crystal splendour of the day.
2
And she paused to let the splendour of the gift sink in.
3
Just then the moon rose from behind the wood in regal splendour.
4
The splendour said to him: Go on; sorrow is but a cloud.
5
The silence and the tempered splendour of the night weighed him down.
1
The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius.
2
Hope Against Hope is an extraordinary memoir written with sudden flashing brilliance.
3
Despite her brilliance in some areas, she was a small fish indeed.
4
All the world about him erupted in unimaginable brilliance; then darkness fell.
5
It is hard to process such brilliance at the best of times.
1
There may be magnificence in the smashing; but the thing is smashed.
2
Here we got within the influence of royal magnificence and the capital.
3
Here nature reigned in simple beauty, unadorned by the magnificence of art.
4
He wanted her to see the magnificence of the Sierras in winter.
5
For a moment the magnificence of the idea took his breath away.
1
The female elf was awed by the grandness of the inner hallway.
2
But there is a grandness to him that demands centre stage.
3
Despite its grandness, these days the citadel was mostly for show.
4
Politicians have not generally been noted for the grandness of their artistic vision.
5
His voice was full of a dowager's conviction, a drawling and leisurely grandness.
Usage of grandeur in English
1
The noise was terrific; the sight was terrible in its fierce grandeur.
2
The motive of the Exposition was the grandeur of a great labor.
3
In him the House of Ferrece might hope to return to grandeur.
4
But he had no idea of the personal grandeur of the place.
5
Such addiction to big-project folies de grandeur is common to governments everywhere.
6
The American forest exhibits in the highest degree the grandeur of repose.
7
The valley now becomes more spacious; while its boundaries increase in grandeur.
8
Homer stands in almost solitary grandeur in the early annals of Greece.
9
The burning the grass in Manding exhibits a scene of terrific grandeur.
10
The burning the grass in Mandingo exhibits a scene of terrific grandeur.
11
You may yet see in this land the grandeur of the dawn.
12
Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space.
13
The university hospital stood in all its grandeur right outside the station.
14
But there is neither grandeur nor gorgeousness in drowning in a tub.
15
You must only remain in health to see me in my grandeur.
16
The grandeur of mountains depends mostly on the state of the atmosphere.
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Translations for grandeur
Grandeur through the time
Grandeur across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common