different between pageant vs splendor

English

Alternative forms

• pageaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

Late 14th c. as Middle English pagent, from Medieval Latin pagina (“play in a cycle of mystery plays”), perhaps from Latin p?gina (“page of a book”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæd??nt/

Noun

pageant (plural pageants)

1. An elaborate public display, especially a parade in historical or traditional costume.

   Synonym: spectacle

   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 4

     For a few moments the events of the day floated in disastrous pageant through my brain, till sleep bathed it in forgetfulness […]

2. A spectacular ceremony.
3. Ellipsis of beauty pageant.

   Synonyms: beauty contest, beauty pageant

4. (obsolete) A wheeled platform for the exhibition of plays, etc.

Derived terms

• pageanter
• pageantry
• beauty pageant

Translations

Verb

pageant (third-person singular simple present pageants, present participle pageanting, simple past and past participle pageanted)

1. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

References

Anagrams

• Napgate

Middle English

Noun

pageant

1. Alternative form of pagent

English

Alternative forms

• splendour (British, Canadian)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendere (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?spl?nd?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?spl?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Noun

splendor (usually uncountable, plural splendors) (American spelling)

1. Great light, luster or brilliance.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, "How the Rhinoceros got its skin"

     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.

2. Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.

3. Great fame or glory.

Usage notes

Splendor is the standard spelling in American English. Splendour is correct in modern British and Commonwealth English.

Translations

Anagrams

• speldron

Latin

Etymology

From splende? +? -or.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?splen.dor/, [?s?p???n?d??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?splen.dor/, [?spl?n?d??r]

Noun

splendor m (genitive splend?ris); third declension

1. sheen, brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendor
2. renown, fame

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• splendor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• splendor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Alternative forms

• esplendor
• esplendur
• splandor
• splendur

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin splendor.

Noun

splendor f (oblique plural splendors, nominative singular splendor, nominative plural splendors)

1. splendor (brilliant brightness)

Descendants

• French: splendeur
• ? English: splendor, splendour

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (splendor)

Polish

Etymology

From Latin splendor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spl?n.d?r/

Noun

splendor m inan

1. splendor (magnificent appearance, display or grandeur)
2. privilege, honor

Declension

Further reading

• splendor in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• splendor in Polish dictionaries at PWN