adjective
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Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
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Grand or noble in action.
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Exceptional for its kind.
Examples of magnificent in a Sentence
Nothing was going to ruin this magnificent day.
The magnificent reception room was crowded.
She sat up and glanced around at the magnificent scenery.
The day was magnificent and the cool morning air as sharp as a knife.
She admired his magnificent back and shoulders and then looked away.
The building stood there, gazing down on the quiet town like some magnificent matron, watching over her citizens as she had for a hundred years.
It served no purpose to smash his magnificent ego.
The Roper is a magnificent stream, navigable for about 75 or 80 m.
They were magnificent, powerful creatures in varying hues of gold and brown.
On returning to France, to the bosom of the great, strong, magnificent, peaceful, and glorious fatherland, I should have proclaimed her frontiers immutable; all future wars purely defensive, all aggrandizement antinational.
To the east lies the magnificent domain of Chatsworth.
The cover pictured a character looking like Carnac the Magnificent from the old Johnny Carson TV show.
There is an abundance of fertile soil and magnificent grazing land.
He is a magnificent specimen.
The river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully armed fort of San Cristobal, is crossed by a magnificent granite bridge, originally built in 1460.
I took the greatest delight in these German books, especially Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life.
My friends have told me about your great and magnificent city, and I have read a great deal that wise Englishmen have written.
All the time she was eating, Gladys prattled on about her magnificent dreams of the snow-covered landscape of faraway planets and the lustful urges of their alien inhabitants.
This was unquestionably the greatest of the voyages which followed from the impulse of Prince Henry, and it was rendered possible only by the magnificent courage of the commander in spite of rebellion, mutiny and starvation.
They began to wonder if there were no people to inhabit this magnificent city of the inner world.
In June 1741 he named the magnificent peak on the coast of North America Mount St Elias and explored the Aleutian Islands.
There are several magnificent hotels.
In the 6th century the emperor Justinian erected a magnificent basilica at Jerusalem, in honour of the Virgin Mary, and attached to it two hospitals, one for the reception of pilgrims and one for the accommodation of the sick poor.
On the Constantins platz stands the magnificent brick basilica, probably of the age of Constantine, though the south and east walls are modern.
The magnificent bay is some 50 m.
It is like a beautiful maiden, who always lived in a palace, surrounded by a magnificent court; while the "Iliad" is like a splendid youth, who has had the earth for his playground.
In 1519 Hungary concluded a three years' truce with Selim I., but the succeeding sultan, Suliman the Magnificent, renewed the war in June 1521.
They are magnificent evergreen trees, with apparently whorled branches, and stiff, flattened, pointed leaves, found in Brazil and Chile, Polynesia and Australia.
Princess Ozma, dressed in her most splendid robes of state, sat in the magnificent emerald throne, with her jewelled sceptre in her hand and her sparkling coronet upon her fair brow.
It has followed me across the ocean and found me in this magnificent great city which I should like to tell you all about if I could take time for it and make my letter long enough.
His pace quickened as he ran, his heart pounding with eagerness to see the magnificent hall that had been his.
The Temple had already been partially rebuilt by Zedekiah and his companions, but on a scale far inferior to the magnificent building of King Solomon, and Nehemiah devoted his attention to the reconstruction of the walls.
The waratah or native tulip, the magnificent flowering head of which, with the kangaroo, is symbolic of the country, is one of the Proteaceae.
If the outside was impressive, the inside was magnificent.
Galeazzo was the wealthiest and most magnificent Italian of his epoch.
He was accorded a magnificent public funeral, his body being removed to Rome and buried in the Campus Martius.
It contains the magnificent coronation hall of the emperors.
The treasury of St Mark's contains a magnificent collection of church plate and jewels.
The palace gardens were aesthetically planned, and they are now magnificent.
There is a magnificent beach stretching 30 m.
At the corner stood the residence of the Babylonian governor, near the site upon which King Herod afterwards built his magnificent palace.
After the holy sites had been determined, Constantine gave orders for the construction of two magnificent churches, the one over the tomb and the other over the place where the cross was discovered.
Interesting too are the magnificent west doors, cast in bronze by native workmen in 804.
It contains a magnificent library, with many valuable MSS.
He was succeeded by his son Suleiman " the Magnificent," in whose long and eventful reign Turkey attained the highest point of her glory.
Nine miles from Patara he discovered the ruins of Xanthus, the ancient capital of Lycia, finely situated on hills, and abounding in magnificent remains.
The magnificent early Gothic cathedral is capable of containing 30,000 people.
But it was one thing to enunciate such magnificent theories in a lecture, and quite another to apply them in the market-place.
The magnificent ruin of Pembroke Castle is the nominal property of the Crown, but has been held on lease since the reign of James II.
Of these the largest are the Semene and Senkunyane (little Senku) and the best known the Maletsunyane, by reason of its magnificent waterfall - an unbroken leap of 630 ft.