vaunt

American  

[vawnt, vahnt] / vɔnt, vɑnt /

verb (used with object)

1. to speak vaingloriously of; boast of.

   to vaunt one's achievements.

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verb (used without object)

1. to speak boastfully; brag.

noun

1. a boastful action or utterance.

vaunt British  

/ vɔːnt /

verb

1. (tr) to describe, praise, or display (one's success, possessions, etc) boastfully

2. rare (intr) to use boastful language; brag

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noun

1. a boast

2. archaic ostentatious display

Other Word Forms

• outvaunt verb (used with object)
• vaunter noun
• vauntingly adverb

Etymology

Origin of vaunt

1350–1400; Middle English vaunten < Middle French vanter to boast < Late Latin vānitāre, frequentative of *vānāre, derivative of Latin vānus vain. See vanity

Example Sentences

Nine months after the Palisades fire tore through the community’s vaunted Alphabet Streets, destroying Holdorff Polhill’s home of three decades, along with those of nearly all of her neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times

The Pittsburgh Steelers added Aaron Rodgers to a team with a vaunted defense.

From The Wall Street Journal

It turns out stocks can still rise without the vaunted artificial intelligence trade.

From Barron's

If that happens, the vaunted independence of the Fed is gone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Fed leaders have tried to bind U.S. banks to a complicated, vaunted set of rules in the name of global regulatory convergence.

From The Wall Street Journal