Meaning

1 senses
  1. (rare)One who uses bombastic or pretentious wording or language.

Origin

From Lexiphanes, a character of Lucian of Samosata's. By surface analysis, lexi- (word) +

From Lexiphanes, a character of Lucian of Samosata's. By surface analysis, lexi- (word) + -phane (“appearing”).

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Forms

plural: lexiphanes
Singularlexiphane
Plurallexiphanes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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