n.
 (pl. glories)
    - high renown or honour won by notable achievements.
- magnificence; great beauty. ▸a beautiful or impressive thing. ▸the splendour and bliss of heaven. 
- praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to God.
- a luminous ring or halo.
v.
 
(
glory in)
 take great pride or pleasure in. 
▸exult in unpleasantly.
Phrase
  
    - glory be!
 expressing enthusiastic piety.
- glory days
 a time in the past regarded as being better than the present.
- in one's glory
 informal in a state of extreme joy or exaltation.
- to glory
 to death or destruction.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. glorie, from L. gloria.