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GRANDILOQUENT

\ɡɹˈandɪlˌɒkwənt], \ɡɹˈandɪlˌɒkwənt], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_n_d_ɪ_l_ˌɒ_k_w_ə_n_t]\

Definitions of GRANDILOQUENT

2006 - WordNet 3.0
2011 - English Dictionary Database
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary

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puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

Speaking grandly or bombastically: pompous.
GRANDILOQUENTLY.
GRANDILOQUENCE.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

Using pompous speech.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

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