resplendent

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(rĭ-splĕn'dənt) pronunciation
adj.
Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin resplendēns, resplendent-, present participle of resplendēre, to shine brightly : re-, re- + splendēre, to shine.]

resplendence re·splen'dence or re·splen'den·cy n.
resplendently re·splen'dent·ly adv.

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adjective

    Marked by extraordinary elegance, beauty, and splendor: brilliant, glorious, gorgeous, magnificent, proud, splendid, splendorous. See beautiful/ugly.

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adj

Definition: bright, radiant
Antonyms: cloudy, dull, gloomy, withering

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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce


adj.

Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade.

        The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- 
    and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them.
                                           "Chronicles of the Classes"


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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Very bright and colorful, almost glowing.

pronunciation The bride and groom enjoyed the resplendent bouquets of flowers at their wedding.

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Resplendent was released on 21 September 2006 in the UK and in the US on September 13, 2007. It is the fourth and final book in Stephen Baxter's Destiny's Children series.

This book is a collection of short stories relating to the previous three books, comprising new works and previously-published stories, including the novellas Reality Dust and Riding the Rock and Mayflower II, an 88-page novella taking place in the Xeelee Sequence that won the 2004 BSFA Award for the Best Short Fiction; it was published in 2004.

It contains the following stories:

  • “Cadre Siblings”, Interzone 153, 2000-03.
  • Reality Dust, 2000.
  • “Silver Ghost”, Asimov’s, 2000-09.
  • “On the Orion Line”, Asimov’s, 2000-10.
  • “In the Un-Black”, Redshift, 2001.
  • “The Ghost Pit”, Asimov’s, 2001-07.
  • “The Cold Sink”, Asimov’s, 2001-08.
  • “Breeding Ground”, Asimov’s, 2003-02.
  • “The Great Game”, Asimov’s, 2003-03.
  • “The Chop Line”, Asimov’s, 2003-12.
  • “The Dreaming Mould”, Interzone 179, 2002-05.
  • “Conurbation 2473”, Live without a Net, 2003-08.
  • “All in a Blaze”, Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian, 2003.
  • Riding the Rock, 2002-11.
  • “Lakes of Light”, Constellations, 2005.
  • “Between Worlds”, Between Worlds, September 2004.
  • Mayflower II, 2004-08.

The plot of Mayflower II is about five generation ships leaving a doomed plant. As thousands of years pass, the humans forget that they are on a spaceship and begin running its mechanisms only through religious ritual. After 25,000 years, the humans on the ship have split in their evolution with half becoming short-lived child-like tribal people and half becoming cannibalistic animals. The ending speaks to the fact that although this situation seems gruesome and terrible that life and evolution find a way and that humans found a way to continue on living even if it meant giving up what is traditionally thought of as human.

  • “Ghost Wars”, Asimov’s, 2006-01.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - strålende

Nederlands (Dutch)
schitterend

Français (French)
adj. - resplendissant (sout)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - prächtig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - περίλαμπρος, λαμπρός, αστραφτερός, μεγαλοπρεπής

Italiano (Italian)
risplendente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - resplandecente

Русский (Russian)
блистательный, ослепительный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - resplandeciente

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - glänsande, lysande, skimrande

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
辉煌的, 灿烂的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 輝煌的, 燦爛的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 빛나는, 찬란한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 輝く, きらびやかな, すばらしい, 華麗な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) متألق لامع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮זוהר, מצוחצח, זורח‬


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