Vaunt

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /vɔːnt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːnt
• some accents IPA: /vɑːnt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnt
• US IPA: /vÉ”nt/
• cot-caught IPA: /vÉ‘nt/

Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus ("vain, boastful").

Full definition of vaunt

Verb

1. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
• 1829 — Washington Irving, , chapter XC"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."
2. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
3. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
• Bible, 1 Cor. xiii. 4Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
• MiltonMy vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil.

Synonyms

• (speak boastfully) boast, brag

Derived terms

• vaunter

Noun

1. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
• Miltonthe spirits beneath, whom I seduced
  with other promises and other vaunts
• 1904 — G. K. Chesterton, , Book II, chapter IIIHe has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.

French avant ("before, fore"). See avant, vanguard.

Noun

1. (obsolete) The first part.

Anagrams

• Tuvan