Gloria
Gloria
American
[glawr-ee-uh, glohr-]
/ ˈglɔr i ə, ˈgloʊr- /
noun
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Liturgy.
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the response Gloria tibi, Domine, “Glory be to Thee, O Lord.”
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(lowercase) a repetition of one of these.
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(lowercase) a musical setting for one of these.
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(lowercase) a halo, nimbus, or aureole, or an ornament in imitation of one.
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(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.
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a female given name.
Gloria
1
British
/ ˈɡlɔːrɪə, -ˌɑː /
noun
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any of several doxologies beginning with the word Gloria, esp the Greater and the Lesser Doxologies
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a musical setting of one of these
gloria
2
British
/ ˈɡlɔːrɪə /
noun
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a silk, wool, cotton, or nylon fabric used esp for umbrellas
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a halo or nimbus, esp as represented in art
Etymology
Origin of Gloria
1150–1200; Middle English < Latin; see glory
Example Sentences
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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
Gloria Rodriguez, a social worker in Edinburg, has seen the impact the immigration raids have had on children.
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
Gloria Roldan Urgoiti, MD, is an oncologist who specializes in brain cancers, while Wee Yong, PhD, is a neuroscientist who studies how the immune system affects the brain.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Teresita says, “Let’s take turns. You fill a bucket, Gloria, then we fill a bucket, until we all have enough water.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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
Besides magnifying Freud's effects on psychology, philosophy, art, drama, education and law, all certainly profound, Dr. Wittels begins his gloria in excelsis by linking Goethe and Freud.
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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