Usually means: Deserving great admiration and honor.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word glorious:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. glorious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glorious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glorious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glorious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glorious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glorious, glorious: Wordnik
  7. glorious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glorious: Wiktionary
  9. glorious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glorious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glorious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glorious, glorious: Dictionary.com
  13. glorious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Glorious (Andreas Johnson song), Glorious (Arty album), Glorious (Bonfire album), Glorious (Cascada song), Glorious (EP), Glorious (Eddie Izzard), Glorious (Ella Henderson song), Glorious (Foxes album), Glorious (Foxes song), Glorious (Gloria Gaynor album), Glorious (Group), Glorious (Macklemore song), Glorious (Meet the Mormons), Glorious (Natalie Imbruglia song), Glorious (The Pierces song), Glorious (music group): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. glorious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. glorious: Rhymezone
  17. glorious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. glorious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. glorious: Free Dictionary
  20. glorious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. glorious: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. glorious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Glorious, Glorious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. Glorious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glorious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glorious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glorious, glorious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. glorious: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gloriously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory.
adjective:  Excellent, wonderful; delightful.
adjective:  Bright or shining;
adjective:  (obsolete) Eager for glory or distinction
adjective:  (obsolete) Excessively proud or boastful.
adjective:  (archaic, colloquial) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

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