'Vaunt' definitions:

Definition of 'vaunt'

(from WordNet)
noun
Extravagant self-praise
verb
Show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]

Definition of 'Vaunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.] The first part. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Vaunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Vaunt \Vaunt\, n. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag. [1913 Webster]
  • The spirits beneath, whom I seduced With other promises and other vaunts. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Vaunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. [See Avant, Advance.] To put forward; to display. [Obs.] "Vaunted spear." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • And what so else his person most may vaunt. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Vaunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Vaunt \Vaunt\ (v[aum]nt or v[add]nt; 277), v. i. [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. [1913 Webster]
  • Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. --Gov. of Tongue. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Vaunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Vaunt \Vaunt\, v. t. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is flaunt. [1913 Webster]
  • Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. --1 Cor. xiii. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'vaunt'

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