Splendor vs Victory - What's the difference?
splendor | victory |
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.
An instance of having won a competition or battle.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 12
, author=
, title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain
, work=BBC Sport
A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See .
(rare) To achieve a
As nouns the difference between splendor and victory
is that splendor is great light, luster or brilliance while victory is an instance of having won a competition or battle.As a verb victory is
to achieve a victory.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.}}
Usage notes
Splendor' is the standard spelling in American English, and ' splendour in modern British Englishvictory
English
Noun
(victories)citation, page= , passage=England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.}}