pomp
pronunciation
How to pronounce pomp in British English:
UK [pɒmp]
How to pronounce pomp in American English:
US [pɑmp]
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- Noun:
- ceremonial elegance and splendor
Word Origin
- pomp
- pomp: [14] Greek pompé meant literally ‘sending’ (it was derived from the verb pémpein ‘send’). But it came to be used metaphorically for a ‘solemn procession or parade’ (as being something that was ‘sent out’ on its way), and hence for the concomitant ‘display’ or ‘ostentation’, and passed with these senses into Latin as pompa. They survived into English, but ‘procession’ has gradually died out.
- pomp (n.)
- 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."
Synonym
Example
- 1. Five brothers commandeered the grounds of a high school to bid their mother goodbye with pomp befitting a state funeral .
- 2. In this climate , buckingham palace has been mindful of the need to not appear too extravagant , while maintaining the pageantry and pomp that is always demanded of them .
- 3. Patriotic bunting as a frigid display of archaic pomp ?
- 4. Despite china 's growing strength , ms lovell sees worrying similarities between china 's weaknesses today and those of the chinese empire of 1838 , describing both as " an impressive but improbable high-wire act , unified by ambition , bluff , pomp and pragmatism " .
- 5. But just as important is what the pomp and circumstance says about rio , which has striven to repair ties with china after last year rejecting an investment bid from chinalco .