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  noun

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

Gloria

American  

[glawr-ee-uh, glohr-] / ˈglɔr i ə, ˈgloʊr- /

noun

1. Liturgy.

   1. Gloria in Excelsis Deo.

   2. Gloria Patri.

   3. the response Gloria tibi, Domine, “Glory be to Thee, O Lord.”

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

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

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

5. (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.

6. a female given name.

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Gloria ¹ British  

/ 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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gloria ² British  

/ ˈɡlɔːrɪə /

noun

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

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

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Etymology

Origin of Gloria

1150–1200; Middle English < Latin; see glory

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Example Sentences

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Gloria gloria

In the documentary, Gloria Steinem says: “She set me on fire…. I would not have been able to see what’s hidden in the fields of our country without Dolores.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Butts is running for a fifth term, and his main challenger is Gloria Gray, an Inglewood City Council member.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hush Hush interpolates Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, which the group sang in Turkish, a striking moment for a group determined to bring their language to an international audience.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“San Diego is not collateral damage,” Gloria posted on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Gloria waves from outside the village hall, where she’s weeding the garden beds.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

However, SZA lends her voice to two tracks, luther and gloria.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024

“Sic transit gloria mundi” — that is one lesson of Bayh’s life and death, as it has been of other formerly famous people.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2019

Ordinary suburban backyards and picket fences run along one side of the path; on the other — sic transit gloria mundi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

What might have been a sharp-witted satire on boobery among bureaucrats turns out to be a sheepish sermon on sic transit gloria Monday through Friday.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Cecilia, en su gloria, in all her spectral splendor,” La Llorona whispered as an ancient, haggish woman walked into view.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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