splendent
Americanadjective
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shining or radiant, as the sun.
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gleaming or lustrous, as metal, marble, etc.
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brilliant in appearance, color, etc.; gorgeous; magnificent; splendid.
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eminent; illustrious.
adjective
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shining brightly; lustrous
a splendent sun
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famous; illustrious
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of splendent
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin splendent- (stem of splendēns ), present participle of splendēre to shine; see -ent
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It has lofty galleries; wherefrom dames of honour, splendent in gaze d'or; foreign Diplomacies, and other gilt-edged white-frilled individuals to the number of two thousand,—may sit and look.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
They had enticed the splendent light-fish into their caverns to give illumination.
From Seed of the Arctic Ice by Harry Bates
I looked, and saw: before her, cast from unseen heavenly mirror, stood the reflection of herself, and beside it a form of splendent beauty, She trembled, and sank again on the floor helpless.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
It occurs in splendent rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; — the last called red ocher.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg
Lo! how down they sweep To basic Good where, massing, they remount, Till, mid God's "Many Mansions," high they leap, Forming forever, joy's most splendent fount!
From Freedom, Truth and Beauty by Edward Doyle
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