Ostentation

Quick meaning: Ostentation is a noun meaning Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

Meaning

Ambitious display; vain show; display intended to excite admiration or applause.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A show or spectacle.

Example Sentences

Let her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish it that she is dead indeed: Maintain a mourning ostentation;

Sir Henry had consumed his substance in ostentation and riotous hospitality—had fed many at his board, made many merry in his halls, but not a friend was in his house of mourning; the very retainers who had grown rich upon his ruin, seemed to deem the burial of their master but a signal for carousing and license.

Word Forms

• ostentations

Synonyms for ostentation

Depending on context, synonyms include parade, pageantry, show, showiness, pomp, pompousness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ostentatiousness, pompousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, splashiness, fanfare.

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