noun
Meaning 1
Anything displayed for show.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
flaunt
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /flɔːnt/
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Australian: /flɔnt/
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General-American, cot-caught-merger: /flɑnt/
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rhymes with -ɔːnt
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verb
Meaning 2
To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To parade, display with ostentation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Near-synonym: vaunt
- She’s always flaunting her designer clothes.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vaunt
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To show off, as with flashy clothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, intransitive, literary
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ostentate, preen, swagger, aura farm, boulevardier, cut a wide swath, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flamboast, flaunt, flex, floss, fluff one's feathers, gallery, high-side, let one's nuts hang, ostent, showboat, show away, show off, strut, strut one's stuff, stunt, swag it out, swank, three-sheet, venditate, yaya
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To flout.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
the act of displaying something ostentatiously
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his behavior was an outrageous flaunt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: display
verb
Meaning 7
display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he showed off his new sports car
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flash, show off, ostentate, swank
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: expose, exhibit, display
Narrower terms: flex, splurge
History
Etymology
Of North Germanic origin. Perhaps related to Norwegian flanta (“to show off, wander about”), Icelandic flana (“to rush about, act rashly or heedlessly”) and then also to French flâner (“to wander around, loiter”). Alternatively, it could be related to Swedish flankt (“loosely, flutteringly”) (compare English flaunt-a-flaunt), from flanka (“waver, hang and wave about, ramble”), a nasalised variant of flakka (“to waver”), related to Middle English flacken (“to move to and fro, flutter, palpitate”). See flack.
By confusion with flout.
Across languages
Translations
94 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: развявам (razvjavam) — to wave or flutter smartly
- Czech: vlát — to wave or flutter smartly
- Czech: třepotat se — to wave or flutter smartly
- Finnish: hulmuta — to wave or flutter smartly
- German: kühn wehen — to wave or flutter smartly
- German: stolz wehen — to wave or flutter smartly
- Hungarian: (büszkén) leng/lobog — to wave or flutter smartly
- Polish: powiewać dumnie — to wave or flutter smartly
- Bulgarian: парадирам (paradiram) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Catalan: ostentar — to parade, display with ostentation
- Chinese Mandarin: 詡 /诩 (xǔ) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Czech: předvádět — to parade, display with ostentation
- Czech: stavět na odiv — to parade, display with ostentation
- Dutch: pronken — to parade, display with ostentation
- Estonian: edvistama — to parade, display with ostentation
- Estonian: eputama — to parade, display with ostentation
- Estonian: kenitlema — to parade, display with ostentation
- Finnish: leveillä — to parade, display with ostentation
- Finnish: pröystäillä — to parade, display with ostentation
- Finnish: prameilla — to parade, display with ostentation
- Finnish: komeilla — to parade, display with ostentation
- French: étaler — to parade, display with ostentation
- French: exhiber — to parade, display with ostentation
- French: parader — to parade, display with ostentation
- German: (etwas) zur Schau stellen — to parade, display with ostentation
- German: herumstolzieren — to parade, display with ostentation
- German: stolzieren — to parade, display with ostentation
- German: paradieren — to parade, display with ostentation
- German: (etwas) zur Schau tragen — to parade, display with ostentation
- German: offen zeigen — to parade, display with ostentation
- Hebrew: התרברב (Hitravrev) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Hungarian: hivalkodik — to parade, display with ostentation
- Hungarian: kérkedik — to parade, display with ostentation
- Hungarian: fitogtat — to parade, display with ostentation
- Hungarian: megcsillogtat — to parade, display with ostentation
- Hungarian: büszkélkedik — to parade, display with ostentation
- Italian: ostentare — to parade, display with ostentation
- Italian: esibire — to parade, display with ostentation
- Italian: mettere in mostra — to parade, display with ostentation
- Macedonian: шепури (šepuri) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Macedonian: фали (fali) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Māori: whakatamarahi — to parade, display with ostentation
- Māori: whakametometo — to parade, display with ostentation
- Māori: whakameremere — to parade, display with ostentation
- Occitan: ostentar — to parade, display with ostentation
- Persian: نمایش دادن — to parade, display with ostentation
- Polish: obnosić się — to parade, display with ostentation
- Polish: paradować — to parade, display with ostentation
- Polish: afiszować się — to parade, display with ostentation
- Polish: zaafiszować się — to parade, display with ostentation
- Portuguese: ostentar — to parade, display with ostentation
- Romanian: parada — to parade, display with ostentation
- Russian: щеголя́ть (ščegoljátʹ) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Russian: хвастать (xvastatʹ) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Spanish: lucir — to parade, display with ostentation
- Spanish: presumir — to parade, display with ostentation
- Spanish: ostentar — to parade, display with ostentation
- Spanish: tremolar — to parade, display with ostentation
- Spanish: alardear de — to parade, display with ostentation
- Swedish: stoltsera — to parade, display with ostentation
- Swedish: paradera — to parade, display with ostentation
- Swedish: briljera — to parade, display with ostentation
- Turkish: bir hava atmak (şeyle) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Turkish: (bir şeyi) teşhir etmek — to parade, display with ostentation
- Ukrainian: хизува́тися (xyzuvátysja) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Ukrainian: кокетува́ти (koketuváty) — to parade, display with ostentation
- Vietnamese: khoe — to parade, display with ostentation
- Bulgarian: показвам се (pokazvam se) — to show off
- Czech: předvádět se — to show off
- Czech: chlubit se — to show off
- Czech: chvástat se — to show off
- Czech: vytahovat se — to show off
- Finnish: komeilla — to show off
- Finnish: koreilla — to show off
- Finnish: prameilla — to show off
- German: mit prunken (etwas) — to show off
- German: protzen — to show off
- German: prangen — to show off
- Hungarian: parádézik — to show off
- Hungarian: díszeleg — to show off
- Hungarian: pompázik — to show off
- Hungarian: ékeskedik — to show off
- Hungarian: páváskodik — to show off
- Hungarian: tetszeleg — to show off
- Māori: whakametometo — to show off
- Māori: whakamenomeno — to show off
- Māori: whakameremere — to show off
- Polish: popisywać się — to show off
- Polish: popisać się — to show off
- Polish: afiszować się impf zaafiszować się — to show off
- Russian: щеголя́ть (ščegoljátʹ) — to show off
- Russian: дефили́ровать (defilírovatʹ) — to show off
- Swedish: glänsa — to show off
- Swedish: briljera — to show off