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splendor

noun
/ˈsplɛndə/UK/ˈsplɛndɚ/US

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendeō (“to shine”).

  1. derived from splendor
  2. derived from splendur

Definitions

  1. Great light, luster or brilliance.

    • What tho’ the moon—the white moon Shed all the splendour of her noon, Her smile is chilly—and her beam, In that time of dreariness, will seem (So like you gather in your breath) A portrait taken after death.
    • Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour.

  2. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.

    • The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.

  3. Great fame or glory.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at splendor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at splendor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at splendor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA