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OSTENTATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ostentate mean?
• OSTENTATE (verb)
The verb OSTENTATE has 1 sense:
1. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
Familiarity information: OSTENTATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 "ostentate" is one way to...):
display; exhibit; expose (to show, make visible or apparent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ostentate"):
flex (exhibit the strength of)
splurge (be showy or ostentatious)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
ostentation (pretentious or showy or vulgar display)
ostentation (a gaudy outward display)
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