 7 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vaunt
noun: extravagant self-praise
verb: show off [syn: {boast}, {tout}, {swash}, {shoot a line}, {brag},
{gas}, {blow}, {bluster}, {gasconade}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, noun
A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done;
ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
The spirits beneath, whom I seduced
With other promises and other vaunts. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, noun [F. avant before, fore. See {Avant},
{Vanguard}.]
The first part. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, verb (used with an object) [See {Avant}, {Advance}.]
To put forward; to display. [Obs.] ''Vaunted spear.''
--Spenser.
And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Vaunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Vaunting}.] [F. vanter, LL. vanitare, fr. L. vanus vain. See
{Vain}.]
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth,
attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk
ostentatiously; to brag.
Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what
he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov.
of Tongue.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vaunt \Vaunt\, verb (used with an object)
To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with
ostentation.
Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. --1 Cor.
xiii. 4.
My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaunt":
advertise, air, blazon, blazon forth, blow, bluster, boast,
boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism,
bragging, brandish, bravado, bravura, brilliancy,
cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, dangle, daring, dash,
demonstrate, demonstration, display, dramatics, draw the longbow,
eclat, emblazon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism,
false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting,
flourish, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, histrionics, hold up,
jactation, jactitation, manifest, manifestation, mouth, pageant,
pageantry, parade, prate, puff, put forth, put forward,
rodomontade, sham, show, show off, showing-off, side,
speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, staginess,
swagger, theatrics, trumpet, trumpet forth, vanity, vapor,
vauntery, vaunting, wave
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