VAUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaunt mean? 

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

1. extravagant self-praise

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

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

1. show off

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extravagant self-praise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

boast; boasting; jactitation; self-praise (speaking of yourself in superlatives)

Derivation:

vaunt (show off)

• VAUNT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they vaunt    ... he / she / it vaunts   
Past simple: vaunted   
Past participle: vaunted   
-ing form: vaunting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Show off

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blow; bluster; boast; brag; gas; gasconade; shoot a line; swash; tout; vaunt

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

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)

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

puff (speak in a blustering or scornful manner)

crow; gloat; triumph (dwell on with satisfaction)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

vaunt (extravagant self-praise)

vaunter (a very boastful and talkative person)

 Context examples 

As to connexion, there Emma was perfectly easy; persuaded, that after all his own vaunted claims and disdain of Harriet, he had done nothing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?” demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The vaunting cruelty with which she met my glance, I never saw expressed in any other face that ever I have seen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The vanguard halted a long bow shot from the hill, and with waving spears and vaunting shouts challenged their enemies to come forth, while two cavaliers, pricking forward from the glittering ranks, walked their horses slowly between the two arrays with targets braced and lances in rest like the challengers in a tourney.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)