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Definition: Gloriously |
GloriouslyAdverb1. With glory or in a glorious manner; "where others had failed he had gloriously succeeded". 2. Blessedly or wonderfully; "how gloriously happy she had been during those few fleeting moments of time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gloriously" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Crosswords: Gloriously |
| Specialty definitions using "gloriously": ROJESVENSKY. (references) |
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Screenplays | You perished as you lived gloriously. This universe will never know your like again (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) | |
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Horace | Gloriously perjured, a maiden famous to all time. |
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| "Gloriously" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gloriously" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 120 | 29,358 |
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Expression using "gloriously": gloriously colorful. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
colorful gloriously kodaks | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "gloriously"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 光彩地. (various references) | |
German | herrlich (glorious, magnificent, lovely, wonderful), glorreiche. (various references) | |
Greek | ένδοξα. (various references) | |
Korean | 영광스럽게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oriouslyglay.(various references) | |
Romanian | glorios (glorious). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gloriose. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 9, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi ofqenteV en doxh elegon thn exodon autou hn emellen plhroun en ierousalhm |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Visi in maiestate et dicebant excessum eius quem conpleturus erat in Hierusalem |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Gesewene on mægenþrymme: and sædon his gewitendnesse þe he to gefyllende wæs on hierusalem; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Moises and Helie weren seen in maieste; and thei sayn his goyng out, which he schulde fulfille in Jerusalem. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Which appered gloriously and spake of his departinge which he shuld ende at Ierusalem. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who appeared in glory, and spoke of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Who were seen in glory and were talking of his death which was about to take place in Jerusalem. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 9, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | nga mipakita nga mahimayaon ug nanagsulti mahitungod sa kamatayon ni Jesus nga iyang mahiaguman didto sa Jerusalem. |
| Chinese | 他 們 在 榮 光 裡 顯 現 、 談 論 耶 穌 去 世 的 事 、 就 是 他 在 耶 路 撒 冷 將 要 成 的 事 。 |
| Croatian | Ukazali se u slavi i razgovarali s njime o njegovu Izlasku, što se doskora imao ispuniti u Jeruzalemu. |
| Danish | som bleve set i Herlighed og talte om hans Udgang, som han skulde fuldbyrde i Jerusalem. |
| Dutch | Dewelke, gezien zijnde in heerlijkheid, zeiden Zijn uitgang, dien Hij zoude volbrengen te Jeruzalem. |
| Finnish | He näkyivät kirkkaudessa ja puhuivat hänen poismenostansa, jonka hän oli saattava täytäntöön Jerusalemissa. |
| French | qui, apparaissant dans la gloire, parlaient de son départ qu`il allait accomplir à Jérusalem. |
| German | die erschienen in Klarheit und redeten von dem Ausgang, welchen er sollte erfüllen zu Jerusalem. |
| Haitian Creole | ki te parèt nan mitan yon bèl limyè ki soti nan syel la. Yo t'ap pale avèk li sou jan li tapral mouri lavil Jerizalèm pou l' te ka akonpli misyon li. |
| Hungarian | Kik dicsõségben megjelenvén, beszélik vala az õ halálát, melyet Jeruzsálemben fog megteljesíteni. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | yang kelihatan dengan kemuliaan serta berkata-kata dari hal mati-Nya, yang akan digenapkan-Nya di Yeruzalem. |
| Italian | apparsi nella loro gloria, e parlavano della sua dipartita che avrebbe portato a compimento a Gerusalemme. |
| Manx Gaelic | Haink kionfenish ayns gloyr, as loayr ad heh e vaase, v'eh dy hurranse ec Jerusalem. |
| Maori | I puta kororia mai, i korero ano ki tona matenga meake nei rite i a ia ki Hiruharama. |
| Norwegian | de viste sig i herlighet og talte om hans bortgang, som han skulde fullbyrde i Jerusalem. |
| Rumanian | cari se arqtaserq kn slavq, wi vorbeau despre sfkrwitul Lui, pe care avea sq -l aibq kn Ierusalim. |
| Shuar | Níincha wincha Jíitsumir téntakarmiayi. Tura Jesus Wáitias Jerusarénnum Jákatniurin amia nuna áujmatiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | quienes aparecieron en gloria y hablaban de su partida, que él iba a cumplir en Jerusalén. |
| Swahili | ambao walitokea wakiwa wenye utukufu, wakazungumza naye juu ya kifo chake ambacho angekikamilisha huko Yerusalemu. |
| Swedish | De visade sig i härlighet och talade om hans bortgång, vilken han skulle fullborda i Jerusalem. |
| Uma | Mehini pai' ncola wo'o-ra-rawo to rodua toera. Mololita-ra, mpotompo'wiwi kamate-na Yesus to napadupa' mpai' hi ngata Yerusalem. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "gloriously": ingloriously, vaingloriously. (additional references) | |
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"Gloriously" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gloriousky. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gloriously" (pronounced glô"rēuslē) |
| 7 | -ô" r ē u s l ē | laboriously, notoriously. |
| 6 | -r ē u s l ē | curiously, furiously, hilariously, mysteriously, precariously, seriously, variously, vicariously. |
| 5 | -ē u s l ē | contemporaneously, enviously, erroneously, harmoniously, hideously, instantaneously, obviously, previously, simultaneously, spontaneously, studiously, tediously, unceremoniously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | aimlessly, ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, breathlessly, callously, capriciously, carelessly, cautiously, ceaselessly, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, jealously, judiciously, effortlessly, egregiously, endlessly, enormously, expeditiously, fabulously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, flawlessly, frivolously, fruitlessly, generously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmlessly, hellaciously, helplessly, hopelessly, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, intravenously, listlessly, ludicrously, maliciously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, nervously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, painlessly, perilously, piously, posthumously, precipitously, prodigiously, purposely, recklessly, relentlessly, religiously, restlessly, ridiculously, righteously, rigorously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, strenuously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tenaciously, tirelessly, tremendously, tremulously, unambiguously, unanimously, unconsciously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously, zealously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-l-o-o-r-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: glorious, illusory. | |
-3 letters: girosol, lousily, surlily, urology. | |
-4 letters: gluily, gorily, grills, grisly, guiros, igloos, isolog, logily, rosily, sourly, uglily. | |
-5 letters: gills, gilly, girls, girly, giros, glory, golly, goosy, gorsy, grill, guiro, gulls, gully, gyros, gyrus, igloo, iglus, logoi, logos, loris, louis, lours, loury, lousy, olios, ology, rills, roils, roily, rolls, silly, slily, sorgo, sully. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-l-o-o-r-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: ingloriously. | |
+4 letters: thyroglobulins, vaingloriously. | |
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