expound

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
"Your friend, Mister Carmichael Yes, yes"--he now looked up, and spoke eagerly--"John Carmichael, of Drumtochty my friend in my old age and others my boys but John has left me he would not speak to me I am alone now he did not understand mine acquaintance into darkness here we see in a glass darkly he turned aside to expound the Greek word for darkly), "but some day face to face."

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To give a detailed statement of; set forth: expounded the intricacies of the new tax law.
  2. transitive verb To explain in detail; elucidate: The speaker expounded the approach of positive thinking. See Synonyms at explain.
  3. intransitive verb To make a detailed statement: The professor was expounding on a favorite topic.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples

  • The Browning evenings must be highly diverting, I can imagine you reading a few lines for him to expound, then him reading a few for you to explain, then both gazing into space with “the infinite cry of finite hearts that yearn!” —  The Lady of the Decoration
  • "Your friend, Mister Carmichael Yes, yes"--he now looked up, and spoke eagerly--"John Carmichael, of Drumtochty my friend in my old age and others my boys but John has left me he would not speak to me I am alone now he did not understand mine acquaintance into darkness here we see in a glass darkly he turned aside to expound the Greek word for darkly), "but some day face to face." —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
  • "Your friend, Mister Carmichael Yes, yes"--he now looked up and spoke eagerly--"John Carmichael, of Drumtochty my friend in my old age and others my boys but John has left me he would not speak to me I am alone now he did not understand mine acquaintance into darkness here we see in a glass darkly he turned aside to expound the Greek word for darkly), "but some day face to face." —  Rabbi Saunderson
  • (not when you make poetry by the side of him), when you tranquilly expound, —  Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth
  • I am alone now ... he did not understand ... mine acquaintance into darkness ... here we see in a glass darkly ... "(he turned aside to expound the Greek word for darkly)," but some day ... face to face. " —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers
 

Tags

expound hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

Expound has been looked up 391 times, favorited once, listed 17 times, and commented on 0 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English expounden, from Anglo-Norman espoundre, from Latin expōnere : ex-, ex- + pōnere, to place; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle English expounden, expounen, expownen (with ex- for es-), from Old French espondre = Provencal esponer, exponer, expondre = Spanish exponer = Portuguese expór = Italian esporre, from Latin exponere, set out, put out, expose, set forth, explain, from ex, out, + ponere, put, set, place: see expone, a doublet of expound, and cf. compound.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ɛksˈpaʊnd/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recent Lookups

russian · dim-lighted · appellant · beatdown · accomplishment

Recent Favorites

airship · cloud-shadows · ombrophobous · turncoat · metaplasm

Recent Pronunciations

milosrdenstvi · lichen-covered · futon · sagacity · monoragngocious