grandiloquence

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• /ɡɹænˈdɪləkwəns/
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From Middle French grandiloquence, from Latin grandiloquentia, from grandiloquus, 1580s.

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: надутост (nadutost) — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Bulgarian: високопарност (visokoparnost) — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Catalan: grandiloqüència — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Dutch: grootspraak — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Dutch: bombast — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Dutch: hoogdravendheid — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Finnish: sanahelinä — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• French: grandiloquence — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Polish: grandilokwencja — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Portuguese: grandiloquência — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Russian: высокопарность (vysokoparnostʹ) — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing
• Spanish: grandilocuencia — lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing