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say it: SPLEN-dur
splendor is a noun meaning "a quality that outshines the usual". It is pronounced /ˈsplɛndɚ/ — SPLEN-dur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a quality that outshines the usual
the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
“for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel”
“his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects”
“it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor”
“an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art”
“advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for splendor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.