Splendour vs Splendor - What's the difference?
splendour | splendor | Alternative forms |
Great light, luster or brilliance.
* Rudyard Kipling The Just So Stories; How the Rhinoceros got its skin:
Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Great fame or glory.
Splendor is a synonym of splendour.
Splendor is a alternative form of splendour.
As nouns the difference between splendour and splendor
is that splendour is standard spelling of from=British spelling|lang=en while splendor is great light, luster or brilliance.splendour
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Noun
(-)Usage notes
The standard spelling in modern British English is splendour', with ' splendor being the American and dated British spelling.splendor
English
Alternative forms
* splendour (British)Noun
(en-noun)- "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. "
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.}}