Definition of Splendid

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Splendid

Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant.

Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; as, a splendid victory or reputation.

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Splendid Quotations

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Denis Waitley

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard

Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless.
James Cash Penney

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
Freddie Mercury

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Freddie Mercury

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

Splendid Translations

splendid in Latin is palmarium

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