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precious | gloria |

As a proper noun precious

is .

As a noun gloria is

glory.

precious

English

Alternative forms

* pretious (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of high value or worth, or seemingly regarded as such.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Polly Toynbee)
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Britain's booming birthrate , passage=People are a good thing, the most precious resource in a rich economy, so the progressive-minded feel. Only misanthropists disagree or the dottier Malthusians who send green-ink tweets deploring any state assistance for child-rearing.}}
  • Regarded with love or tenderness.
  • (pejorative) Treated with too much reverence.
  • (pejorative) Contrived to be cute or charming.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 24, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
    • , title= Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , passage=In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.}}

    Synonyms

    * (of high value) dear, valuable * (contrived to charm) saccharine, syrupy, twee

    Related terms

    * appraise * appreciate * depreciate * praise * precious few * precious little * price

    Noun

    (es)
  • Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling.
  • * J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
    • “It isn't fair, my precious , is it, to ask us what it's got in its nassty little pocketses?”
  • * 1909 , Mrs. Teignmouth Shore, The Pride of the Graftons (page 57)
    • She sat down with the dogs in her lap. "I won't neglect you for any one, will I, my preciouses ?"

    Adverb

    (-)
    • There is precious little we can do.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "precious")

    External links

    * * English degree adverbs English intensifiers

    gloria

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • . Popular during the first half of the 20th century.
  • * 1835 Jacobus Flax , , October 1835, page 291:
    • Miss Flax, the little thin sister, and Miss Gloria , the stout able-bodied sister, lifted up their hands and eyes in horror at the mere hint of a wet nurse.
  • * 1898 , You Never Can Tell , Act II:
    • Crampton . - - - What's your name? I mean your pet name. They can't very well call you Sophronia.
    Gloria . Sophronia! My name is Gloria . I am always called by it.
    Crampton . Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.
    Gloria : Then my mother gave me a new name.

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