vaunt
/voːnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""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.""
- "Near-synonym: flaunt"
- "Charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."
- "My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil."
- "the spirits beneath, whom I seduced / with other promises and other vaunts"
- "“In every vaunt you make,” she said, “I have my triumph. I single out in you the meanest man I know, the parasite and tool of the proud tyrant, that his wound may go the deeper, and may rankle more. Boast, and revenge me on him! […]”"
Etymology
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus (“vain, boastful”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /voːnt/
- British English: /vɔːnt/