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fanfares

fanfares is the plural of fanfare.

fanfares is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fanfare.

Meaning of fanfare

Noun

fanfare (countable and uncountable, plural fanfares)

  1. (countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
    • They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
  2. A show of ceremony or celebration.
    • The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.

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Questions about fanfares

What is fanfares the plural of?
Fanfares is the plural of fanfare.

Words near fanfares in the dictionary

  1. fanfarade
  2. fanfarades
  3. fanfare
  4. fanfared
  5. fanfarelike
  6. fanfares
  7. fanfaring
  8. fanfarings
  9. fanfaron
  10. fanfarona
  11. fanfaronade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanfares (page history and authors); fanfare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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