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many-splendored

many-splendored adjective: with many splendid parts.

Adjective

many-splendored (not comparable)

  1. with many splendid parts
    • love is a many-splendored thing
    • 'Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces, / That miss the many-splendoured thing.c. 1907, Francis Thompson, "In No Strange Land", Selected Poems of Francis Thompson, London: Methuen & Co. (1908), p. 131

Forms of many-splendored

alternative Commonwealth Ireland UKmany-splendoured

Questions about many-splendored

What does many-splendored mean?
Many-splendored means with many splendid parts.
What part of speech is many-splendored?
Many-splendored is an adjective.

Words near many-splendored in the dictionary

  1. many-seed goosefoot
  2. many-sided
  3. many-sidedness
  4. many-sorted logic
  5. many-sorted logics
  6. many-splendored
  7. many-stemmed
  8. many-to-many
  9. many-to-one
  10. many-tongued
  11. many-valued logic

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