"vaunt" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /vɔːnt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vɔnt/ [US], /vɑnt/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-vaunt.ogg , en-au-vaunt.ogg Forms: vaunts [plural]
enPR: vônt [Received-Pronunciation], vônt [US], vänt [cot-caught-merger] Rhymes: -ɔːnt Etymology: From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|vaunten}} Middle English vaunten, {{der|en|xno|vaunter}} Anglo-Norman vaunter, {{der|en|fro|vanter}} Old French vanter, {{der|en|la|vānus||vain, boastful}} Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”), {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} vaunt (plural vaunts)
  1. An instance of vaunting; a boast. Translations (instance of vaunting): хвалба (hvalba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), kerskunta (Finnish), vantardise [feminine] (French), ტრაბახი (ṭrabaxi) (Georgian), კვეხნა (ḳvexna) (Georgian), laudă [feminine] (Romanian), lăudăroșenie [feminine] (Romanian), хвастовство́ (xvastovstvó) [neuter] (Russian), chvastanie (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-vaunt-en-noun-SjlwZXiU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /vɔːnt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vɔnt/ [US], /vɑnt/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-vaunt.ogg , en-au-vaunt.ogg Forms: vaunts [plural]
enPR: vônt [Received-Pronunciation], vônt [US], vänt [cot-caught-merger] Rhymes: -ɔːnt Etymology: From French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|avant||before, fore}} French avant (“before, fore”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} vaunt (plural vaunts)
  1. (obsolete) The first part. Tags: obsolete Related terms: vaunt-courier
    Sense id: en-vaunt-en-noun-P1LTWyIx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /vɔːnt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /vɔnt/ [US], /vɑnt/ [cot-caught-merger] Audio: en-us-vaunt.ogg , en-au-vaunt.ogg Forms: vaunts [present, singular, third-person], vaunting [participle, present], vaunted [participle, past], vaunted [past]
enPR: vônt [Received-Pronunciation], vônt [US], vänt [cot-caught-merger] Rhymes: -ɔːnt Etymology: From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|vaunten}} Middle English vaunten, {{der|en|xno|vaunter}} Anglo-Norman vaunter, {{der|en|fro|vanter}} Old French vanter, {{der|en|la|vānus||vain, boastful}} Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”), {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₁weh₂-}} Head templates: {{en-verb}} vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)
  1. (intransitive) To speak boastfully. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Talking Synonyms (speak boastfully): boast, brag
    Sense id: en-vaunt-en-verb-NBwnOtmK Disambiguation of Talking: 21 19 37 7 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovak translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 27 35 18 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 55 33 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 17 45 22 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 29 43 20 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 16 53 17 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 13 55 21 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 13 54 26 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Georgian translations: 16 53 18 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 14 54 20 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 9 59 27 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 14 54 20 12 Disambiguation of 'speak boastfully': 73 25 1
  2. (transitive) To speak boastfully about. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-vaunt-en-verb-l3SAACyX
  3. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-vaunt-en-verb-Gtz6qRY~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: vaunter
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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    "Terms with French translations",
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          "text": "“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! […]”",
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      "sense": "instance of vaunting",
      "word": "ტრაბახი"
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      "sense": "instance of vaunting",
      "word": "კვეხნა"
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      "sense": "instance of vaunting",
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          "ref": "c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:",
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