GLORY


Meaning of GLORY in English

noun

1 fame/honour

ADJECTIVE

▪ personal

They are driven by a craving for personal ~.

▪ reflected

She basked in the reflected ~ of her daughter's success.

▪ greater

The force behind all his reforms was the greater ~ of the state.

▪ military

young soldiers eager to win military ~

VERB + GLORY

▪ cover yourself in , cover yourself with , get , win

He covered himself in ~ and came home a rich man.

Typical! I do all the work and she gets all the ~. ( informal )

▪ bring (sb)

Victory brought them ~, fame and riches.

▪ bask in

▪ steal , take

I didn't want to steal her ~, so I stayed in the background.

GLORY + NOUN

▪ days

Quarterman's ~ days are long behind him.

We remember the team's ~ days in the 1960s, when they won the World Cup.

PREPOSITION

▪ for the ~ of , to the ~ of

They built many churches, great and small, to the ~ of God.

PHRASES

▪ a blaze of ~

It's my last ever tournament and I hope to go out in a blaze of ~!

▪ sb's moment of ~

His moment of ~ came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event.

2 beauty/beautiful feature

ADJECTIVE

▪ full

You cannot appreciate the bridge's full ~ by going over it; it is best viewed from below.

▪ crowning

The city's crowning ~ is its Gothic cathedral.

PHRASES

▪ in all her, his, etc. ~

Seeing the Rockies in all their ~ was an awesome experience.

▪ restore sth to its former ~

The 18th-century building has been restored to its former ~.

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