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
- splendently adverb
Etymology
Origin of splendent
1425–75; late Middle English < Latin splendent- (stem of splendēns ), present participle of splendēre to shine; see -ent
Example Sentences
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Seest not the sheen Of links their splendent tresses fling?
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The usual lustre of crystals of cassiterite is remarkably splendent, even adamantine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Even when he gazed into her blue eyes he was conscious of a more flaming glory than lay in the heavens of their depths; a splendent maze that shed a brightness around her.
From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart
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
O she was worthy to be Queene of heaven; Her beauty, e're it suffred violence, Was like the Sunne in his Meridian Throne, Too splendent for weake eyes to gaze upon.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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