1 (formal) deserving or bringing great fame and success:
a glorious deed / victory * a glorious chapter in our country's history * The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
compareINGLORIOUS
2 (formal) very beautiful and impressive:
a glorious sunset / view * Both her daughters have glorious red hair.
3 extremely enjoyable:
a glorious trip to Rome
4 (of weather) hot, with the sun shining:
They had three weeks of glorious sunshine.
gloriously adverb:
The show has been gloriously successful. * a gloriously sunny day
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for glorious is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is glorious a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, glorious is tagged as adjective.
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