ostent.
To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.
Meaning & usage
To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostentāre (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostendere (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tendere (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of ostentate.
A display, an exhibition; an appearance, a manifestation.
A boastful, ostentatious display or exhibition.
Where this word comes from
From Latin ostentus (“a display, exhibition, show”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1.
A portent, a token.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French ostente (“amazing or marvellous thing; prodigy, wonder”) or directly from its etymon Latin ostentum (“portent”), from ostendere (“to exhibit, show”); see further at etymology 1. The plural form ostenta is from Latin ostenta.
One sixtieth of an hour: a minute (60 seconds).
Where this word comes from
Perhaps from Latin ostentum.
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