fanfaring
fanfaring is the present participle and gerund of fanfare.
Noun
fanfaring (countable and uncountable, plural fanfarings)
- Pomp or activity to call attention to something.
- The National Orchestral Association wound up its tenth concert season last week without much fanfaring.1940, The New Yorker - Volume 16, Issues 12-24, page 57
- A broad tier of shelves below an expanded metal "pegboard" gives Kline's a focal point for shoe-apparel-accessory fanfaring.1967, Boot and Shoe Recorder: The Magazine of Fashion Footwear
- The playing of fanfares.
- Loud drumming and blaring And strident fanfaring, Big banging and booming were rife in the air.1894, Christmas Number, page 46
- If you can take it, you'll find all this fanfaring a lot of fun.1991, Stereo Review - Volume 56; Volume 56, page 104
Adjective
fanfaring (not comparable)
- Characteristic of fanfare; In a manner to dramatically introduce.
- Then Fraser discovered that the forty million fanfaring Uncle Blaises were rolling towards him again on the surface of their Beachball of the World.2006, Richard Leviton, Fraser's Angel, →ISBN
- 'PJ's!' explained Steve, unnecessarily, adding in a fanfaring kind of a voice, 'Home of PJ's fa-a-amous pancakes!"2010, Stephen Fry, Making History, →ISBN, page 294
- Marked by the playing of fanfares.
- You want to inveigle me from my own clear task and metier — the writing of verse — into a vague maelstrom of fanfaring trumpets, bewildering lights, chaos of costumes, enigmatical actors, untangoing dancers, all helplessly entangled in frescos of civic reform; pageantry, in short.1918, Howard Willard Cook, Our Poets of Today
- Bulging muscles, steaming with sweat and all completely accurate and recognizable, in service to rattling flags, fanfaring festival music, pretty parades, girls dressed only in the German fashion, such was the art of the Third Reich: loud and gaudy, banal and servile - and for many very beautiful.1989, Sherrill Grace, Regression and apocalypse, page 13
Meaning of fanfare
Verb
fanfare (third-person singular simple present fanfares, present participle fanfaring, simple past and past participle fanfared)
- To play a fanfare.
- At this the trumpeters again most earnestly fanfared,1887, Truth - Volume 22, page 33
- To embellish with fanfares.
- Today the mower's metal music fanfared summer's choir of motley symphonies and high concertos piped or chanted from a treetop, droned above the pollen bee flowers, babbled over stony brook-beds, whispered by the whine of willow,1946, John Hugh Brignal Peel, Mere England: a poem, page 49
- To imitate a fanfare, in order to dramatize the presentation or introduction of something.
- The name of the farm we were staying on was, tun-tun-tah,' I fanfared dramatically, 'Le Tomple, the temple. Spooky eh?'2008, Hugo Soskin, The Cook, the Rat and the Heretic, →ISBN
- To introduce with pomp and show.
- Grindingly, laths of wood yielded to brown and yellow hands, a wrenching and screaming of twisted nails fanfared the discovery of the treasure beneath.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 463
- To mark an arrival or departure with music, noise, or drama.
- She stepped neatly into the fray, took up Rover's slack lead and marched him briskly in a northerly direction away from the miniature foe, their retreat fanfared by the triumphant sound of the terrier who obviously thought he had bested an unworthy opponent, and who strutted after them for a few...2005, Lesley Zobian, The Hanged Man, →ISBN, page 82
- To publicize or announce.
- So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?1989, Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850, →ISBN, page 131
Forms of fanfaring
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Questions about fanfaring
- What does fanfaring mean?
- Fanfaring means pomp or activity to call attention to something.
- What is fanfaring the present participle and gerund of?
- Fanfaring is the present participle and gerund of fanfare.
- What part of speech is fanfaring?
- Fanfaring can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of fanfaring?
- The plural of fanfaring is fanfarings.
Words near fanfaring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanfaring (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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