vaunt
UK/vɔːnt/
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Australia/voːnt/
vaunt verb: to speak boastfully.
Verb
vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)
- To speak boastfully.
- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."1829, Washington Irving, chapter XC, in Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
- To speak boastfully about.
- To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
- Near-synonym: flaunt
- Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Cor Cor-Chapter-xiii/#4 xiii:4
- Synonyms:
- flaunt
Noun (1)
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- An instance of vaunting; a boast.
- the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- “In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […]”1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC
Noun (2)
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- The first part.
- the vaunt and firstlings of those broilsc. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
vaunt meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
vaunt in Tamil
- வீம்புரை, வீம்படி, வீண் தற்பெருமைகொள், வீறாப்பாக நட, வீறாப்பாகப் பேசு
vaunt in Urdu
- vaunt, boast, brag
- اترانا itrānā
vaunt in Malayalam
- പെരുമപറയുക, വീമ്പുപറയുക, ആത്മസ്തുതി ചെയ്യുക, പൊങ്ങച്ചം പറയുക
Examples of vaunt in a sentence
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert...
- He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.1904, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “Enter a Lunatic”, in The Napoleon of Notting Hill, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head...
Synonyms of vaunt
Forms of vaunt
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | vaunts |
| present participle | vaunting |
| past participle | vaunted |
| past | vaunted |
| Noun | |
| plural | vaunts |
Origin of vaunt
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
From French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.
Words formed from vaunt
Words that rhyme with vaunt
Questions about vaunt
- What does vaunt mean?
- Vaunt means to speak boastfully.
- What is vaunt in Tamil?
- Vaunt in Tamil is வீம்புரை, வீம்படி, வீண் தற்பெருமைகொள். See Vaunt meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use vaunt in a sentence?
- My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.
- What part of speech is vaunt?
- Vaunt can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce vaunt?
- Vaunt is pronounced /vɔːnt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of vaunt?
- The past tense of vaunt is vaunted.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: vaunt (page history and authors); vaunt (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اترانا (Urdu) (page history and authors); vaunt (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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