noun
Meaning 1
An instance of vaunting; a boast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
vaunt
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: vônt
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Received-Pronunciation: /vɔːnt/
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Australian, British, New-Zealand, Southern, Standard: /voːnt/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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vônt without the cot–caught merger
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/vɔnt/ without the cot–caught merger
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cot-caught-merger: vänt
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cot-caught-merger: /vɑnt/
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US: cot-caught Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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South-Asia: /ʋɔɳʈ/
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South-Asia: /ʋɑɳʈ/ father-bother merger
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homophone: want
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rhymes with -ɔːnt
noun
Meaning 2
The first part.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To speak boastfully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boast, brag
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To speak boastfully about.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- Near-synonym: flaunt
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flaunt
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
extravagant self-praise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
verb
Meaning 7
show off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, gasconade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
Narrower terms: puff, gloat, triumph, crow
History
Etymology
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
From French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: хвалба (hvalba) — instance of vaunting
- Finnish: kerskunta — instance of vaunting
- French: vantardise — instance of vaunting
- Georgian: ტრაბახი (ṭrabaxi) — instance of vaunting
- Georgian: კვეხნა (ḳvexna) — instance of vaunting
- Romanian: laudă — instance of vaunting
- Romanian: lăudăroșenie — instance of vaunting
- Russian: хвастовство́ (xvastovstvó) — instance of vaunting
- Slovak: chvastanie — instance of vaunting