Glory

Definition

glory / glↄ:ri / n ၁။ [U] ထင္ေပၚေက်ာ္ၾကားမႈ။ ဂုဏ္က်က္သေရ။ glory won on the field of battle ❍ a proud father basking/ bathing in his son's reflected glory (ie sharing the fame achieved by his son) ❍ leave politics in a blaze of glory ❍ ( ironic ) She didn't exactly cover herself with glory in the exams! စာေမးပြဲမွာ သူ ဟုတ္တိ ပတ္တိ မေျဖႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ၂။ [U] ဘုရားသခင္အား ခ်ီးက်ဴး ေထာမနာျပဳျခင္း။ Glory to God in the highest. ၃။ [U] အထူး သာယာၾကည္ႏူးဖြယ္ေကာင္းျခင္း။ ခမ္းနားထည္ဝါျခင္း။ the glory of a sunset / a summer's day ❍ the countryside in all its glory ❍ The old house was restored to its former glory. ၄။ [C] ဂုဏ္ယူဖြယ္၊ ၾကည္ညိဳေလးစားဖြယ္၊ အံ့မခန္းဖြယ္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ the glories of nature ❍ The temple is one of the glories of ancient Greece. ❍ The opera was the crowning glory of his long and illustrious career. v ( pt , pp -ied ) ❏ glory days n [pl] ေရႊထီးေဆာင္းခဲ့ရဖူးသည့္ ေန႔မ်ား။ က်က္သေရေဆာင္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရဖူးသည့္ ေန႔မ်ား။ the glory days of pop music ❍ a town long past its glory days. ❏ glory in sth [ PHRV ] အထူးဝမ္းေျမာက္ ၾကည္ႏူးသည္။ ဂုဏ္ယူသည္။ glory in one's freedom/ success.

Examples

1. He is at the height of his fame and glory.
2. [get (all) the glory] : I did the hard work and someone else got all the glory.
3. [bask in the glory of something] : The film studio is still basking in the glory of its 14 Oscar nominations.
4. [reflected glory] : She enjoyed the reflected glory of her daughter’s fame.
5. [glory of] : This rose is one of the glories of his garden.
6. It will cost millions of pounds to restore the mansion to its former glory.