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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Job security is a top of "huge anxiety" among workers, the company's co-director Gloria Aparicio said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Plus, we remember Gloria Steinem, who died at 92 this week.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Elsewhere, the paper pays tribute to Gloria Steinem, a "trailblazing feminist campaigner", after she died aged 92.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
On the day Gloria Steinem died at 92, I awoke to a text from one of the friends I made all those years ago at Ms.; soon there were four of us on the thread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Gloria steps away, and I imagine it’s because she doesn’t want to see me leave, but she goes to her yard and returns with a handful of mangos.
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
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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