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Translation

glory, fame

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Examples

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The soldiers returned with great glory.

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He sought glory, but found only pain.

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The glory of the ancient town has passed.

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She sang of the glory of her people.

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We glorify those who defended the country.

is renown with honour attached, the kind won in battle or earned by a life's work, and it sits a register above ordinary , which is simply being known and can just as easily be notoriety. The verb means to praise or extol, i to make glorious, and is the adjective. It shows up heavily in hymns, national poetry and the older Esperanto translations, so if your prose is meant to be plain, or will usually do the job with less trumpeting.

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This word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 8: gloro, aparteni, rivero and 7 more words.