Word Meanings - POMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. "All the pomps of a Roman triumph." Addison. 2. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. Syn. -- Display; parade; pageant; pageantry; splendor; state; magnificence;
Additional info about word: POMP
1. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. "All the pomps of a Roman triumph." Addison. 2. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. Syn. -- Display; parade; pageant; pageantry; splendor; state; magnificence; ostentation; grandeur; pride.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POMP)
- Glory
- Brightness
- radiance
- effulgence
- honor
- fame
- celebrity
- pomp
- luster
- magnificence
- splendor
- renown
- Grandeur
- Dignity
- display
- ostentation
- Ostentation
- Show
- parade
- flourish
- vaunting
- boasting
- Pageant
- Pomp
- procession
- exhibition
- spectacle
- show
- ceremony
- Parade
- Vaunting
- flaunting
- pageant
Related words: (words related to POMP)
- SPECTACLE
An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually, - GRANDEUR
The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye. - EXHIBITION
The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art, - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - EXHIBITIONER
One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. - RENOWNED
Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61. - PAGEANT
or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page 1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. - VAUNT
To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. - SPLENDOR
1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy; - DISPLAYER
One who, or that which, displays. - OSTENTATION
1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to - RENOWNEDLY
With renown. - VAUNTER
One who vaunts; a boaster. - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - RENOWNLESS
Without renown; inglorius. - RENOWNER
One who gives renown. - AVAUNTOUR
A boaster. Chaucer. - CLUSTERY
Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson. - LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
A want of luster. -- a. - IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton.