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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To speak boastfully of; brag about.
  2. v. To speak boastfully; brag. See Synonyms at boast1.
  3. n. A boastful remark.
  4. n. Speech of extravagant self-praise.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, or powers; talk with vain ostentation: boast; brag.
  2. To glory; exult; triumph.
  3. To magnify or glorify with vanity; boast of; brag of.
  4. To display or put forward boastfully; exhibit vaingloriously.
  5. n. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
  6. n. The first part; the beginning.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To speak boastfully.
  2. v. transitive To speak boastfully about.
  3. n. A boast; an instance of vaunting.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.
  2. v. To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation. In the latter sense, the term usually used is flaunt.
  3. n. A vain display of what one is, or has, or has done; ostentation from vanity; a boast; a brag.
  4. n. obsolete The first part.
  5. v. obsolete To put forward; to display.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. show off
  2. n. extravagant self-praise

Etymologies

  1. Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin vānus ("vain, boastful"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English vaunten, from Old French vanter, from Late Latin vānitāre, to talk frivolously, frequentative of Latin vānāre, from vānus, empty. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bristol-copywriter When a product is described as 'vaunted', is that generally positive or negative? Who does the vaunting? Self-promoters or genuine enthusiasts? Apr 7, 2010

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