Usually means: Renown gained by notable achievements.
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General (35 matching dictionaries)
  1. glory: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. glory, glory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glory: Vocabulary.com
  6. GLory, Glory, glory: Wordnik
  7. glory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. glory: Wiktionary
  9. glory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glory: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glory, glory: Dictionary.com
  13. glory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. glory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Glory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. glory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. glory: Rhymezone
  19. glory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. glory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Glory: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. glory: Free Dictionary
  23. glory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. glory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. glory: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. glory: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Glory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glory (disambiguation), glory: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glory (disambiguation), Glory (optical phenomenon), glory: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. GLORY: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. glory: Idioms
  5. glory: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glory: Easton Bible
  2. Glory: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glory: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. glory: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Glory: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See gloried as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Great beauty and splendor.
noun:  Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
noun:  That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
noun:  Worship or praise.
noun:  (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
noun:  Victory; success.
noun:  An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
noun:  (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
noun:  (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
noun:  Something glorious.
verb:  To exult with joy; to rejoice.
verb:  To boast; to be proud.
verb:  (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly.
noun:  A female given name from English.

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