how to pronounce glory

/ˈɡlɔːɹiː/

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glory is pronounced in two syllables

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1.

ɔː

2.

iː

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An example use of glory in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to its former glory and we have a nice …”

meaning of glory

Glory is the state of being famous or celebrated.

glory frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word glory occurs in english on average 42.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics glory can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that glory can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;