Noun: splendor
| Singular | splendor |
| Plural | splendors |
Sample Sentences
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What tho’ the moon—the white moon
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Shed all the splendour of her noon,
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Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
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In that time of dreariness, will seem
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(So like you gather in your breath)
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A portrait taken after death. [1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:]
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Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour. [1902, Rudyard Kipling, “How the Rhinoceros got its skin”, in Just So Stories:]
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The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
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The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like splendor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendeō (“to shine”). See: Latin Nouns '
splendor'.