FANFARE
Dictionary entry overview: What does fanfare mean?
• FANFARE (noun)
The noun FANFARE has 2 senses:
1. a gaudy outward display
2. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
Familiarity information: FANFARE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FANFARE (noun)
Meaning:
A gaudy outward display
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
fanfare; ostentation; flash
Hypernyms ("fanfare" is a kind of...):
display (exhibiting openly in public view)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fanfare"):
bluster; bravado (a swaggering show of courage)
exhibitionism (extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself)
ritz (ostentatious display of elegance)
splurge (an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.))
pedantry (an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning)
Meaning:
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
tucket; fanfare; flourish
Context examples:
he entered to a flourish of trumpets / her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare
Hypernyms ("fanfare" is a kind of...):
air; line; melodic line; melodic phrase; melody; strain; tune (a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence)
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
