fanfare
A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announceA flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
» Why all the fanfare?
CM · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable)A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
Fanfare
фанфа́раfanfára
(countable, uncountable)A show of ceremony or celebration.
The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.
фанфа́раfanfára
- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments
- a gaudy outward display
Examples
6 sentencesWhy all the fanfare?
Tom celebrated his fortieth the other day, without fanfare or trumpets.
Tom celebrated his fortieth birthday the other day, without fanfare or trumpets.
The new star player, who joined with much fanfare, was behaving with such abandon that he was admonished by the coach.
Hype and fanfare greeted the U.S. launch of Microsoft's newest game.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from French fanfare; some senses apparently influenced by surface analysis, fan +Borrowed from French fanfare; some senses apparently influenced by surface analysis, fan + fare.
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Forms
plural: fanfaresSynonyms
4 synonyms- (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments:flourishtucket
- a gaudy outward display:ostentationflash
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable