Gloria

[ glawr-ee-uh, glohr- ]

noun
  1. Liturgy.

  2. (lowercase) a repetition of one of these.

  1. (lowercase) a musical setting for one of these.

  2. (lowercase) a halo, nimbus, or aureole, or an ornament in imitation of one.

  3. (lowercase) a fabric of silk, cotton, nylon, or wool for umbrellas, dresses, etc., often with a filling of cotton warp and yarn of other fiber.

  4. a female given name.

Origin of Gloria

1
1150–1200; Middle English <Latin; see glory

Words Nearby Gloria

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How to use Gloria in a sentence

  • If he wished to earn the true Gloria, he must set to work to do his subjects good, and to be virtuous.

    The Daisy Chain | Charlotte Yonge
  • He breaks out, indeed, into a burst of devotional praise—Gloria Patri—as if for some special and never-to-be-forgotten mercy.

    Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport Adams
  • Gloria, you are nice, and sweet, but your money would only be a drop in the ocean!

  • Dear, dear, how extremely like to Gloria is that figure in the middle of Margot's painting!

  • It is with God always as it is with men at the season of the Gloria.

    Castellinaria | Henry Festing Jones

British Dictionary definitions for gloria (1 of 2)

gloria

/ (ˈɡlɔːrɪə) /


noun
  1. a silk, wool, cotton, or nylon fabric used esp for umbrellas

  2. a halo or nimbus, esp as represented in art

Origin of gloria

1
C16: from Latin: glory

British Dictionary definitions for Gloria (2 of 2)

Gloria

/ (ˈɡlɔːrɪə, -ˌɑː) /


noun
  1. any of several doxologies beginning with the word Gloria, esp the Greater and the Lesser Doxologies

  2. a musical setting of one of these

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