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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Magnificent.
  • adjective Imposingly large.
  • adjective Exalted.
  • adjective Pompous; grandiloquent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making great or illustrious; glorifying or glorious; splendid; magnificent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English magnifique, from Old French, from Latin magnificus : magnus, great; see meg- in Indo-European roots + -ficus, -fic.]

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Latin magnificus.

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