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Meaning of गौरव in English

  • The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
  • Elevation; grandeur.
  • Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
  • Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
  • One holding high rank; a dignitary.
  • Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
  • A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.
  • The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.
  • A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense.
  • Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain.
  • That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc.
  • Show; ostentation; glory.
  • Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life.
  • Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast.
  • To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively.
  • To be proud; to glory.
  • The condition or quality of being rank.
  • of Sublimity
  • The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).
  • That which is sublime; as, the sublimities of nature.
  • A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.
  • A portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the Episcopal Church the version in English is used.
  • The musical setting of a gloria.
  • Boast; a triumphing.
  • Illustrious; honorable; noble.
  • of Glory
  • The act of glorifyng or of giving glory to.
  • The state of being glorifed; as, the glorification of Christ after his resurrection.
  • of Glorify
  • An aureole.
  • Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
  • That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.
  • Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
  • The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.
  • An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
  • To exult with joy; to rejoice.
  • To boast; to be proud.
  • Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.

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