(glories, ~ing, gloried)
1.
Glory is the fame and admiration that you gain by doing something impressive.
Walsham had his moment of ~ when he won a 20km race.
...we were still basking in the ~ 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 ~ of something is its great beauty or impressive nature.
The ~ 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 ~ in a situation or activity, you enjoy it very much.
The workers were ~ing in their new-found freedom...
= revel
VERB: V in n
6.
If you go out in a blaze of ~, 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 ~.
PHRASE: oft in PHR