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panache

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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, US: /pəˈnæʃ/
  • Received-Pronunciation, US: /pəˈnɑːʃ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -æʃ
  • CMU ARPABET: P AH0 N AA1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An ornamental plume on a helmet.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hackle, plume, plumage

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Flamboyance, energetic style or action.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dash, flamboyance, swagger, verve

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a feathered plume on a helmet

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: plume

4

noun

Meaning 4

distinctive and stylish elegance

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, style

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: elegance

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French panache, from Middle French pennache (“plume of feathers”), from Italian pennacchio, from Late Latin pinnāculum. Doublet of pinnacle.

Across languages

Translations

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: плюмаж (pljumaž) — ornamental helmet plume
  • Catalan: plomall — ornamental helmet plume
  • Dutch: vederbos — ornamental helmet plume
  • Dutch: panache — ornamental helmet plume
  • Finnish: sulkatöyhtö — ornamental helmet plume
  • Finnish: sulkakoriste — ornamental helmet plume
  • French: panache — ornamental helmet plume
  • German: Federbusch — ornamental helmet plume
  • Icelandic: fjaðraskúfur — ornamental helmet plume
  • Italian: pennacchio — ornamental helmet plume
  • Macedonian: перјаница (perjanica) — ornamental helmet plume
  • Polish: pióropusz — ornamental helmet plume
  • Portuguese: penacho — ornamental helmet plume
  • Romanian: panaș — ornamental helmet plume
  • Russian: плюма́ж (pljumáž) — ornamental helmet plume
  • Russian: султа́н (sultán) — ornamental helmet plume
  • Serbo-Croatian: perjanica — ornamental helmet plume
  • Spanish: penacho — ornamental helmet plume
  • Swedish: panasch — ornamental helmet plume
  • Bulgarian: показност (pokaznost) — flamboyant style or action
  • Dutch: zwier — flamboyant style or action
  • Dutch: panache — flamboyant style or action
  • Esperanto: brilo — flamboyant style or action
  • Finnish: vauhdikkuus — flamboyant style or action
  • Finnish: lennokkuus — flamboyant style or action
  • Finnish: into — flamboyant style or action
  • French: panache — flamboyant style or action
  • German: Schwung — flamboyant style or action
  • German: Elan — flamboyant style or action
  • Polish: polot — flamboyant style or action
  • Polish: rozmach — flamboyant style or action
  • Portuguese: brilho — flamboyant style or action
  • Russian: щегольство́ (ščegolʹstvó) — flamboyant style or action
  • Russian: фатовство́ (fatovstvó) — flamboyant style or action
  • Russian: рисо́вка (risóvka) — flamboyant style or action
  • Russian: разма́х (razmáx) — flamboyant style or action
  • Serbo-Croatian: verv — flamboyant style or action
  • Serbo-Croatian: kićenost — flamboyant style or action
  • Serbo-Croatian: kitnjastost — flamboyant style or action
  • Spanish: gracia — flamboyant style or action
  • Spanish: garbo — flamboyant style or action