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Gender Feminine
Pronounced Pron. glawr-ee-AN-ə

Meaning & History

Elaborated form of Latin gloria meaning "glory". In Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queene (1590) this was the name of the title character, a representation of Queen Elizabeth I.