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OSTENTATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ostentate mean? 

OSTENTATE (verb)
  The verb OSTENTATE has 1 sense:

1. display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiouslyplay

  Familiarity information: OSTENTATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OSTENTATE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

flash; flaunt; ostentate; show off; swank

Context example:

he showed off his new sports car

Hypernyms (to "ostentate" is one way to...):

display; exhibit; expose (to show, make visible or apparent)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ostentate"):

flex (exhibit the strength of)

splurge (be showy or ostentatious)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

ostentation (pretentious or showy or vulgar display)

ostentation (a gaudy outward display)


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