FLAUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flaunt mean? 

• FLAUNT (noun)
  The noun FLAUNT has 1 sense:

1. the act of displaying something ostentatiously

  Familiarity information: FLAUNT used as a noun is very rare.

• FLAUNT (verb)
  The verb FLAUNT has 1 sense:

1. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

  Familiarity information: FLAUNT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLAUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of displaying something ostentatiously

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

his behavior was an outrageous flaunt

Hypernyms ("flaunt" is a kind of...):

display (exhibiting openly in public view)

Derivation:

flaunt (display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously)

flaunty (inclined to flaunt)

• FLAUNT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they flaunt    ... he / she / it flaunts   
Past simple: flaunted   
Past participle: flaunted   
-ing form: flaunting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

flash; flaunt; ostentate; show off; swank

Context example:

he showed off his new sports car

Hypernyms (to "flaunt" is one way to...):

display; exhibit; expose (to show, make visible or apparent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "flaunt"):

flex (exhibit the strength of)

splurge (be showy or ostentatious)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

flaunt (the act of displaying something ostentatiously)

 Context examples 

There was stigma enough in the fact of it, but shamelessly to flaunt it in the face of the world—her world—was going too far.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

First at him who flaunts with my lady's silken frock.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have come to see, she said, James Steerforth's fancy; the girl who ran away with him, and is the town-talk of the commonest people of her native place; the bold, flaunting, practised companion of persons like James Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There, beneath them, was the blood-bathed hill, and from the highest pinnacle there flaunted the yellow and white banner with the lions and the towers of the royal house of Castile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She reminded him of Lizzie Connolly, though there was less of fire and gorgeous flaunting life in her than in that other girl of the working class whom he had seen twice.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was lightly dressed; looked bold, and haggard, and flaunting, and poor; but seemed, for the time, to have given all that to the wind which was blowing, and to have nothing in her mind but going after them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here the Company were quartered in a scattered mountain hamlet, and Alleyne spent the day looking down upon the swarming army which poured with gleam of spears and flaunt of standards through the narrow pass.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The blood surged into his face, wave upon wave, mastering the bronze of it till the blush of shame flaunted itself from collar-rim to the roots of his hair.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)