vaunt

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

vaunt, v. i. [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."  [1913 Webster]

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."  [1913 Webster]
"My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil."  [1913 Webster]

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."  [1913 Webster]

vaunt, n. [F. avant before, fore. See Avant, Vanguard.].

 The first part.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

vaunt, v. t. [See Avant, Advance.].

 To put forward; to display.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
"And what so else his person most may vaunt."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vaunt, v. & n. literary
--v.
1 intr. boast, brag.
2 tr. boast of; extol boastfully.
--n. a boast.

Derivative

vaunter n. vauntingly adv.

Etymology

ME f. AF vaunter, OF vanter f. LL vantare f. L vanus VAIN: partly obs. avaunt (v.) f. avanter f. a- intensive + vanter

THESAURUS

vaunt

advertise, air, blazon, blazon forth, blow, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brandish, bravado, bravura, brilliancy, cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, dangle, daring, dash, demonstrate, demonstration, display, dramatics, draw the longbow, eclat, emblazon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, histrionics, hold up, jactation, jactitation, manifest, manifestation, mouth, pageant, pageantry, parade, prate, puff, put forth, put forward, rodomontade, sham, show, show off, showing-off, side, speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, staginess, swagger, theatrics, trumpet, trumpet forth, vanity, vapor, vauntery, vaunting, wave

ROGET THESAURUS

vaunt

Boasting

N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.

VB boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor, blague, blow, four-flush, bluff, exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph, throw up one's cap, talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.