GLORY


Meaning of GLORY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ glɔ:ri ]

( glories, glorying, gloried)

1.

Glory is the fame and admiration that you gain by doing something impressive.

Walsham had his moment of glory when he won a 20km race.

...we were still basking in the glory of our Championship win.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

A person’s glories are the occasions when they have done something people greatly admire which makes them famous.

The album sees them re-living past glories but not really breaking any new ground.

N-PLURAL : with supp

3.

The glory of something is its great beauty or impressive nature.

The glory of the idea blossomed in his mind.

N-UNCOUNT : with poss , usu the N of n

4.

The glories of a culture or place are the things that people admire most about it.

...a tour of Florence, to enjoy the artistic glories of the Italian Renaissance...

N-COUNT : usu pl , with supp , usu the N of n

5.

If you glory in a situation or activity, you enjoy it very much.

The workers were glorying in their new-found freedom...

= revel

VERB : V in n

6.

If you go out in a blaze of glory , you do something very dramatic at the end of your career or your life which makes you famous.

I am never going back to prison. I am going to make national news headlines and go out in a blaze of glory.

PHRASE : oft in PHR

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.