noun stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
ostentatious or vain display, especially of dignity or importance.
pomps, pompous displays, actions, or things: The official was accompanied by all the pomps of his high position. Archaic a stately or splendid procession; pageant.
Origin of pomp 1275–1325; Middle English < Latin pompa display, parade, procession < Greek pompḗ orig., a sending, akin to pémpein to send
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Related Words for pomp formality ,
fanfare ,
splendor ,
grandeur ,
solemnity ,
grandiosity ,
shine ,
pageant ,
parade ,
show ,
ritual ,
panoply ,
ostentation ,
vainglory ,
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ceremony ,
pomposity ,
affectation ,
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array Examples from the Web for pomp Contemporary Examples of pomp If a product is beautiful, why do you need all that pomp and circumstance?
Instead, there was a high school band striking up the Elgar march “Pomp and Circumstance.”
A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless.
Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial.
We still seem driven by hype, by illusory health scares and benefits, by pomp , by the new and trendy, than by taste.
Historical Examples of pomp The Marquis had naturally expected to find him in the midst of pomp .
The pomp of Antony's position, too, and his kingly personality pleased our poet.
Give me health and a day and I will put the pomp of emperors to shame.
No pomp of funeral was, indeed, necessary for such a person.
To draw out the pomp and circumstance of opening the conference?
British Dictionary definitions for pomp noun stately or magnificent display; ceremonial splendour
vain display, esp of dignity or importance
obsolete a procession or pageant
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Word Origin for pomp C14: from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa procession, from Greek pompē; related to Greek pompein to send
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Word Origin and History for pomp n. c.1300, from Old French pompe "pomp, magnificence" (13c.) and directly from Latin pompa "procession, pomp," from Greek pompe "solemn procession, display," literally "a sending," from pempein "to send." In Church Latin, used in deprecatory sense for "worldly display, vain show."
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n. A drug used in cancer chemotherapy and composed of purinethol (6-mercaptopurine), Oncovin (vincristine sulfate), methotrexate, and prednisone.
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