Vaunt
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /vɔːnt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Vaunt is a verb meaning (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
Meaning
(intransitive) To speak boastfully.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
- An instance of vaunting; a boast.
- (obsolete) The first part.
Example Sentences
Near-synonym: flaunt
the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
Word Forms
- vaunts
- vaunting
- vaunted
Synonyms for vaunt
Depending on context, synonyms include boast, brag, flaunt, bluster, tout, swash.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brag, boast, gasconade, bluster, tout, blow.
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