adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a beautiful/lovely/glorious day (= with very nice weather )
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It was a beautiful day yesterday, wasn’t it?
glorious sunshine (= enjoyable bright sunshine )
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They woke to blue skies and glorious sunshine.
glorious/beautiful/perfect
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It was glorious weather, so we decided to go for a picnic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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He inched toward it as it grew more and more glorious .
most
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The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside.
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Donen and Vincente Minnelli were the directors with whom he collaborated on his most glorious musicals, often sharing the directing credit.
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In 1917, as if in defiance of the death and destruction all around him, Modigliani painted his most glorious series of nudes.
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To Virgil as to all Roman poets, war was the noblest and most glorious of human activities.
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For one minute, the most glorious minute in the world, Gravellier thought he had got through to him.
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Relive the most glorious defeat in the history of any franchise in any sport.
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It was most glorious in the fall when the golden leaves crackled under our feet.
■ NOUN
day
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Slowly Rory walked back to the house, the glorious day ruined.
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This was, after all, supposed to be a glorious day and a kickoff event that belonged to the home team.
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It was a glorious day , so I did not mind.
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I suggested that it was a waste of a glorious day to eat indoors.
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One day , thought Preston, one glorious day when some one asks me how I am, I shall tell them.
past
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Thought Burbank, meditating on Time's ruins, and the seven laws assumes a glorious past .
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And its glorious past , long clung to, is over.
view
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The house was built in the 1930s and faces south with glorious views of Dartmoor, shared by all the principal bedrooms.
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The glorious views to and from the building remain, and their grounds, though overgrown, can quickly be restored.
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From the bedrooms there are glorious views of the Wetterstein mountains and the Zugspitze.
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There is a handsome stable block, a huge walled garden and 63 acres with glorious views .
years
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He had had six glorious years with Arfur.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in full/glorious technicolour
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That night Jay dreamed in glorious technicolour with full Dolby stereo.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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glorious fall colors
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It was a glorious day!
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We spent six glorious days in Acapulco.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A glorious fragrance filled the room.
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Bellerophon was master of the glorious creature.
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I let the glorious dinner evolve, picturing it in complete detail, until I could smell every taste.
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Last night had been a glorious voyage of discovery to a new land, revealing wonders never dreamt of.
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Resorts that are glorious in mid-summer can be bleak and damp in winter as well as pretty dull when the tourist season is over.
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The glorious expedition had degenerated into a humiliating disaster.
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The village faces west to a distant horizon formed by Skye and the Torridon mountains, a glorious prospect.