vaunt

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vônt, IPA(key): /vɔːnt/ (Standard Southern British, Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /voːnt/ (US) (without the cot–caught merger) enPR: vônt, IPA(key): /vɔnt/ (cot–caught merger) enPR: vänt, IPA(key): /vɑnt/ (South Asia) IPA(key): /ʋɔɳʈ/, (father-bother merger) /ʋɑɳʈ/ Homophone: want Rhymes: -ɔːnt === Etymology 1 === From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”). ==== Verb ==== vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted) (intransitive) To speak boastfully. Synonyms: boast, brag (transitive) To speak boastfully about. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. Near-synonym: flaunt ===== Derived terms ===== vaunter ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== vaunt (plural vaunts) An instance of vaunting; a boast. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard. ==== Noun ==== vaunt (plural vaunts) (obsolete) The first part. === References === “vaunt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === See also === vaunt-courier === Anagrams === Tuvan