| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Boast.[Websters]
2. To be conceited. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have blustered or bragged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be inflated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have bounced or danced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be aggrandized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have magnified, overestimated, overrated or overplayed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be plumed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have overstated or emphasized. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have flaunted or pranced.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb boast.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (boast) | 1. Show off.[Wordnet]. 2. Wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner.[Wordnet]. 3. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.[Websters]. 4. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.[Websters]. 5. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.[Websters]. 6. To display vaingloriously.[Websters]. 7. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.[Websters]. 8. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.[Websters]. 9. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.[Websters]. 10. Base verb from the following inflections: boasting, boasted, boasts, boaster, boasters, boastingly and boastedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BOASTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: boast
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Gray: The Elegy, stanza 9. 2: Boast (The). The vainglory, the ostentation, that which a person boasts of, or is proud of. 3: Awaits [sic] alike the inevitable hour." 4: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: boast
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Boast of Cassiopeia | The Boast of Cassiopeia is a story from Greek mythology, associated with Perseus. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: boast
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Boast of England | Literature | 1: (The). Tom Thumb or Tom-a-lin. Richard Johnson, in 1599, published a "history of this ever-renowned soldier, the Red Rose Knight, surnamed The Boast of England, showing his honorable victories in foreign countries, with his strange fortunes in Fary Land, and how he married the fair Angliterra, daughter of Prester John...." 2: When Periclee, Tyrant of Athens, was on his death-bed, he overheard his friends recounting his various merits, and told them they had omitted the greatest of all, that no Athenian through his whole administration had put on mourning through his severity- i.e. he had caused no Athenian to be put to death arbitrarily. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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