vaunt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /vɔːnt/|/voːnt/    美 /voːnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An instance of vaunting; a boast.
    — the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts
  2. The first part. obsolete
    — the vaunt and firstlings of those broils
动词 v.
  1. To speak boastfully. intransitive
    — "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. To speak boastfully about. transitive
  3. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. transitive
    — Near-synonym: flaunt

词形变化

vaunts present,singular,third-person vaunting participle,present vaunted participle,past vaunted past vaunts plural vaunts plural

词汇关系

衍生词
vaunter

词源

词源 1
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
词源 2
From French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.
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