splendid

«splendid» in Mova's school dictionary: Very beautiful, grand and impressive: «a splendid palace» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (splendid, more splendid, most splendid); adverb (splendidly)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very beautiful, grand and impressive: «a splendid palace». tree →

2) (UK, a little old-fashioned) Very good; excellent: «What a splendid idea!» tree →

sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows, Toad uses «splendid» all the time about himself, his house and his motor-cars. In old-style British speech, «Splendid!» means «Great!». In descriptive writing, splendid can describe a grand building, costume or view.

examples

• What a splendid idea! tree →
• The palace had a splendid golden gate. tree →
• Toad said Toad Hall was the most splendid house on the river. tree →
• We had a splendid day at the beach. tree →
• The peacock spread its splendid tail. tree →
• «Splendid!» said the teacher. «Full marks.» tree →
• How splendid and light it is! tree →

note

Noun splendour (UK) / splendor (US). Similar: magnificent, grand, superb, excellent.

In the corpora

• Over lunch Toad tells all his adventures as if they were splendid fun, and the Rat grows more and more grave and silent.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «splendid» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.