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" Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world."
Jane Asher

Meaning of "brilliance" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF BRILLIANCE

ˈbrɪljəns


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BRILLIANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Brilliance is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BRILLIANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Brilliance

Brilliance may refer to: ▪ Brilliance China Auto, a car company from China ▪ Brilliance, a bitmap graphics editor for the Amiga ▪ Brilliance, a 1956 album by Thelonious Monk ▪ Brilliance, a 1982 album by Atlantic Starr ▪ Brilliance, a 2005 album by Chieko Kawabe ▪ Genius, a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability ▪ Brilliance, the quality of an x-ray source...

Definition of brilliance in the English dictionary

The first definition of brilliance in the dictionary is great brightness; radiance. Other definition of brilliance is excellence or distinction in physical or mental ability; exceptional talent. Brilliance is also splendour; magnificence.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BRILLIANCE

appearance · assistance · audience · balance · compliance · conference · confidence · difference · distance · evidence · experience · imbalance · importance · inconvenience · influence · insurance · Lawrence · license · poignance · valiance

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BRILLIANCE

brights · brightsome · brightwork · Brigid · brigue · brik · briki · brill · Brillat-Savarin · brilliancy · brilliant · brilliant cut · brilliante · brilliantine · brilliantined · brilliantly · brilliantness · Brillo · Brillo pad · brim

WORDS THAT END LIKE BRILLIANCE

advance · allegiance · alliance · ambiance · analysis of variance · appliance · Canadian Alliance · covariance · defiance · deviance · invariance · irradiance · kitchen appliance · noncompliance · Pledge of Allegiance · radiance · reliance · self-reliance · the Alliance · Triple Alliance · variance

Synonyms and antonyms of brilliance in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «BRILLIANCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «brilliance» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «brilliance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BRILLIANCE

Find out the translation of brilliance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of brilliance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «brilliance» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

辉煌
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

brillantez
570 millions of speakers
en

English

brilliance
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

प्रतिभा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تألق
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

блеск
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

brilho
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

Brillat-Savarin
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

éclat
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Brillat-Savarin
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Brillanz
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ブリリアンス
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

광택
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Brillat-Savarin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sáng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Brillat-Savarin
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ब्रिलॅट-साव्हरीन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Brillat-Savarin
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

brillantezza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

blask
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

блиск
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

strălucire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λαμπρότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

briljantheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

briljans
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

glans
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of brilliance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BRILLIANCE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of brilliance
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «brilliance».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about brilliance

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10 QUOTES WITH «BRILLIANCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word brilliance.
1
Steve Albini
If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.
2
Jane Asher
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.
3
Libba Bray
You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.
4
Robert Bresson
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
5
Warren Buffett
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
6
Bradley Chicho
Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.
7
Cyril Cusack
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
8
Ted Dekker
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
9
W. C. Fields
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
10
Stephen Fry
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRILLIANCE»

Discover the use of brilliance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to brilliance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Brilliance
But to catch him, Cooper will have to violate everything he believes in — and betray his own kind.From Marcus Sakey, “a modern master of suspense” (Chicago Sun-Times) and “one of our best storytellers” (Michael Connelly), comes an ...
Marcus Sakey, 2013
2
Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Do you know things without being able to explain how or why?
Linda Kreger Silverman, 2002
3
Release Your Brilliance
So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be. Release Your Brilliance provides the combination to the vault where your brilliance is kept.
Simon T. Bailey, 2009
4
Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
Uncertainty will freeze you in place if you let it. Jonathan Fields knows the risks—and potential power—of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer.
Jonathan Fields, 2011
5
Brilliance!: Masterpieces from the American Jewelry Design ...
An illustrated study that showcases original pieces of jewelry created by members of the American Jewelry Design Council based on a given theme includes dramatic photographs of this art jewelry in chapters that cover such themes as Peekaboo ...
Cindy Edelstein, Frank Stankus, 2008
6
Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation ...
In Borrowing Brilliance he shows readers how new ideas are merely the combination of existing ones by presenting a simple six-step process that anyone can use to build business innovation: ?Defining-Define the problem you're trying to solve ...
David Kord Murray, 2009
7
Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences That ...
To help readers unleash the brilliance in others, this book provides the structure, tools, language, and models needed to create optimal learning experiences from their ideas, practices, models and books.
Vicki Halsey, 2011
8
Natural Brilliance: Overcome Any Challenge...at Will
This book helps readers release their genius -- their Natural Brilliance -- and use it to overcome barriers that have blocked them in the past.
Paul R. Scheele, 2000
9
Personal Brilliance: Mastering the Everyday Habits That ...
A book that shows how anyone can create and enjoy spectacular success!
Jim Canterucci, 2005
10
Obdurate Brilliance: Exteriority and the Modern Long Poem
Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of exteriority.
Peter Baker, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BRILLIANCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term brilliance is used in the context of the following news items.
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London bombings survivor Gill Hicks says attacks revealed …
"Look at the brilliance of humanity. Look at all the people who risked their lives to come and save me," she said. "To them it didn't matter if I had ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
Brilliance from Younis and Masood take Pakistan closer to series win
Younis Khan (right) scored an unbeaten 101 as Pakistan need 147 runs with eight wickets in hand to win the series against Sri Lanka on the ... «Cricket World, Jul 15»
3
Phelps' brilliance offers a glimpse at future
BEIJING — U.S. men's head coach Eddie Reese was walking into the Olympic Village cafeteria a few days ago when Great Britain swimmer ... «Alton Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
Wimbledon 2015: Nick Kyrgios backs up bravado with brilliance
From the moment he appeared at Wimbledon this year, the young Australian Nick Kyrgios has been on a one-man mission to rid tennis of the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
When the Night Erupts in Brilliance
There is a long stretch of dirt road in a corner of southwest New Hampshire that seems to be made of different time. Should you happen down ... «Truth-Out, Jul 15»
6
Manly in need of DCE brilliance
If there was a time for Manly halves Daly Cherry-Evans and Kieran Foran to stand up, now is it. Whether he admits it or not, Cherry-Evans has a ... «ninemsn, Jul 15»
7
Williams brings big game brilliance to Capitals
Shortly after the Los Angeles Kings' disappointing finish to the 2014-15 regular season, right wing Justin Williams said that if he couldn't finish ... «Comcast SportsNet Washington, Jul 15»
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Philips Brilliance 221S6QUMB review
The Philips Brilliance 221S6QUMB monitor is one solution to this, effectively removing the proprietary element of most docks and turning itself ... «IT PRO, Jul 15»
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Tactical brilliance and lucky calls: how USA reached the World Cup …
Tactical brilliance and lucky calls: how USA reached the World Cup final. Jill Ellis's team were unimpressive as they made their way through the ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Brilliance of Drop City remembered
Could not extract width/height from image: http://www.chieftain.com/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls? «Pueblo Chieftain, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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