n.
(pl. glories)
- high renown or honour won by notable achievements.
- magnificence; great beauty.
▸a beautiful or impressive thing.
▸the splendour and bliss of heaven.
- praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to God.
- a luminous ring or halo.
v.
(
glory in)
take great pride or pleasure in.
▸exult in unpleasantly.
Phrase
- glory be!
expressing enthusiastic piety. - glory days
a time in the past regarded as being better than the present. - in one's glory
informal in a state of extreme joy or exaltation. - to glory
to death or destruction.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. glorie, from L. gloria.