pomp

nounpageantry, display

Synonyms for pomp

noun pageantry, display

Antonyms for pomp

Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French pompe "pomp, magnificence" (13c.) and directly from Latin pompa "procession, pomp," from Greek pompe "solemn procession, display," literally "a sending," from pempein "to send." In Church Latin, used in deprecatory sense for "worldly display, vain show."

Example Sentences for pomp

The Marquis had naturally expected to find him in the midst of pomp.

The pomp of Antony's position, too, and his kingly personality pleased our poet.

Give me health and a day and I will put the pomp of emperors to shame.

No pomp of funeral was, indeed, necessary for such a person.

To draw out the pomp and circumstance of opening the conference?

The pomp and magnificence of sunset were in abeyance to-night, were laid aside.

In Spain, it is celebrated with all the pomp and ostentation imaginable.

Moved by a common impulse, they rose to their feet and fled from "Pomp and Circumstance."

Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

Pomp thinks all the world of her, and she will be the peacemaker, perhaps.

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Synonyms for pomp

Antonyms for pomp

ceremony

display

displays

fanfare

glory

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