noun
1 fame/honour
ADJECTIVE
▪ personal
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They are driven by a craving for personal ~.
▪ reflected
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She basked in the reflected ~ of her daughter's success.
▪ greater
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The force behind all his reforms was the greater ~ of the state.
▪ military
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young soldiers eager to win military ~
VERB + GLORY
▪ cover yourself in , cover yourself with , get , win
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He covered himself in ~ and came home a rich man.
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Typical! I do all the work and she gets all the ~. ( informal )
▪ bring (sb)
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Victory brought them ~, fame and riches.
▪ bask in
▪ steal , take
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I didn't want to steal her ~, so I stayed in the background.
GLORY + NOUN
▪ days
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Quarterman's ~ days are long behind him.
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We remember the team's ~ days in the 1960s, when they won the World Cup.
PREPOSITION
▪ for the ~ of , to the ~ of
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They built many churches, great and small, to the ~ of God.
PHRASES
▪ a blaze of ~
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It's my last ever tournament and I hope to go out in a blaze of ~!
▪ sb's moment of ~
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His moment of ~ came when he won the Olympic downhill skiing event.
2 beauty/beautiful feature
ADJECTIVE
▪ full
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You cannot appreciate the bridge's full ~ by going over it; it is best viewed from below.
▪ crowning
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The city's crowning ~ is its Gothic cathedral.
PHRASES
▪ in all her, his, etc. ~
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Seeing the Rockies in all their ~ was an awesome experience.
▪ restore sth to its former ~
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The 18th-century building has been restored to its former ~.